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When Emacs is created (dumped), the name of the documentation file
(e.g. "DOC-18.56.1") gets in and can be reconfigured only by
re-dumping emacs. (It seems that a call to  Snarf-documentation
(in the file doc.c) sets the variable).

Why wouldn't that name be user configurable (i.e. have a variable
like  doc-file-name ) ?

I ran into this when trying to build some documenting service similar
to emacs' help. I built my own DOC file (with similar format; e.g. F...)
and managed to fool the "documentation" function to take my argument
as an emacs function:

(let ((exec-directory "/u/boaz/clu/")  
      (doc-file-name "MY-DOC")         ;; this does not work !!!!
      )
 (documentation '(lambda . (foo . (456)))))  ;; 456 is the index into DOC

the only problem was that emacs insisted on the file name "DOC-18.56.1",
which makes it a nuisance (I want my service to be used by many users
with different versions of emacs).

-- Boaz.

p.s. I know I can write a similar C code to do it, but distributing both
     elisp and C code makes things more complex.

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*   Boaz Ben-Zvi   (boaz@neutron.lcs.mit.edu)          *
*   MIT: NE43-526   Tel: (617) 253-6212                *
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