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Re: gdb.texinfo is getting too big


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:25:59 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
>>
>> Next question:  Any strong preference for how?
>> I suggested splitting up by chapter, and that's fine with me, but
>> before I do all that work, IWBN to get pre-approval for at least the
>> general idea.
>> I count > 40.
>> Is there a less granular split people want?
>
> No, it's too fine-grained.  40 files is too much, IMO.  It is better
> to group several consecutive chapters into a single file.
>
>> [Keeping the split mechanical, by something like chapter, is easy.
>> Otherwise a discussion could drag on ...]
>
> Well, you started it ;-)

The worry I have with any kind of grouping not based on the doc itself
is that it introduces a potentially non-intuitive layer that someone
has to learn in order to know which file contains the text one wants
to edit.  grep will find it of course, but if one is having to grep
too much, would that be a problem?


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