Re: Integration of Info manuals in programming modes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>,  rms@gnu.org,
>   spwhitton@spwhitton.name,  jb@jeremybryant.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:22:41 +0530
> 
> [வியாழன் டிசம்பர் 05, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What other GNU programming packages which have Info manuals and
> > suitable Emacs major modes are not supported by info-look.el?
> 
> f90-mode could look up intrinsic procedures in the gfortran Info manual.
> Maybe there is a better for Fortran that I am unaware of.  A start would
> be
> 
>     (info-lookup-maybe-add-help
>      :mode 'f90-mode
>      :ignore-case t
>      :regexp "[A-Za-z0-9_]+"
>      :doc-spec '(("(gfortran)Keyword Index")))

We could definitely add something like that, but is it specific to
f90-mode?  What about other Fortran modes?

> but I do not understand how info-lookup works really.  C-h S RET on
> 'read' jumps to the FGET page which is not we want.

Look at the index node you mentioned: what other menu item that
matches "read" there is more appropriate?  And what did you expect to
see instead?

The gfortran manual doesn't seem to describe the Fortran language,
only the GNU-specific extensions or something.  It lacks basic Fortran
keywords.  Perhaps that is the source of your confusion?