Re: Info documentation does not match Help documentation

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 08/16/2012 10:40 PM, drain wrote:
> If you've altered the source code, or customized your inits extensively,
> you'll want help and info to spit out contrasting data.
>
> The highest-frequency place of conflict will likely be the key 
bindings. If
> I lookup forward-char with help, I will be given my custom 
definition; but
> if I look it up with info, I will be given the default. This 
discrepancy is
> useful: it reminds me what I have altered the program from and to.

Actually, I wasn't thinking about Info and Help drawing from the same 
source.
This cannot be done, as Help draws from the compiled code, whilst Info draws
from the manuals, and as your example shows, they must be kept separate 
anyway,
and the Info manual pristine.

I was thinking about both documentations being maintained in a single place.
Then, some sort of preprocessing would replicate it from one source to the
other.

Maybe things started the way they are now to save memory at runtime, and 
memory
may still be a scarce resource on some platforms supported by Emacs.