Re: emacs/info/dir

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:25:57 -0500
> 
>     >     Because I think an Info file shouldn't have TABs in it.
>     > 
>     > Why not?
> 
>     Because Texinfo mode sets indent-tabs-mode to nil.
> 
> That is for the sake of passing the file to TeX.
> It has nothing to do with Info files.

But it has the side effect of producing Info files with no TABs.

> So I don't see any reason to untabify info files.
> Perhaps you should take that change out.

Why? it didn't hurt anything (modulo my stupid taking out the TABs in
the Node line, which is now fixed).

> Did it solve any real problem?

Spurious diffs when comparing to DIR created/rearranged by
install-info.