Info files could be more consistent

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From: Juha Takala
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 10:08

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Not a bug in *emacs*, but...

The top level info nodes that describe programs like emacs, gcc, gdb,
gawk (ie. programs that are invoked from shell) should all have one menu
entry that leads to a node describing the command line arguments.

Most of them do -- but each has a different name!!!  The menu items are
not in any well defined order.  The descriptions of menu items talk
about `invoking', `starting', `entering', or ..., so searching makes no
sense.  This makes it hard to find them.

Maybe the GNU coding standards could come up with a universal name for
the name of menu item that describes the command line arguments??

-- 
Juha Takala  (jta@sah.vtt.fi)  tel.: +358-0-456 6415   fax: +358-0-435 67014
Technical Research Centre, Laboratory of Electrical and Automation Engineering 
Otakaari 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND

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