Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:03 -0400
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>   > # The file name eintr must fit within 5 characters, to allow for
>   > # -NN extensions to fit into DOS 8+3 limits without clashing.
> 
> Thanks for finding the reason.
> 
> Eli, does this name length matter any more?

No.  Especially since we stopped splitting our manuals into foo-N
parts long ago.

The only issue today is that renaming the Info file will make the
successful update of the system-wide DIR file by install-info at "make
install" time more important, otherwise people might have an old
manual presented to them.  Not sure what this means for the various
binary distros.  Also, we need to rework all the references we have to
that manual in Lisp files (I found only one such reference, FWIW).

> Is the Emacs Lisp Intro long enough that it needs to generate subfiles
> named with two digits?  Could we make it generate suffixes -N instead?

Not an issue anymore, see above.

> Then we could call it ELINTR.

I'd suggest ELINTRO or even LISPINTRO (similar to LISPREF for the
ELisp reference manual).