* bookmark.el (bookmark-file-or-variation-thereof): Just use

Info-suffix-list, as suggested by Stefan Monnier.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index da57c509295..68fdbec84bd 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-06-07  Karl Fogel  <kfogel@red-bean.com>
+
+        * bookmark.el (bookmark-file-or-variation-thereof): Just use
+        Info-suffix-list, as suggested by Stefan Monnier.
+
 2002-06-05  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
         * select.el (xselect-convert-to-string): If VALUE is a string,
diff --git a/lisp/bookmark.el b/lisp/bookmark.el
index 53939f92ca6..c3bab39ba3d 100644
--- a/lisp/bookmark.el
+++ b/lisp/bookmark.el
@@ -1072,19 +1072,18 @@ of the old one in the permanent bookmark record."
 
 
 (defun bookmark-file-or-variation-thereof (file)
-  "Return FILE (a string) if it exists in any reasonable variation, else nil.
-Reasonable variations are FILE.gz, FILE.Z, FILE.info, FILE.info.gz, etc."
-  (cond
-   ((file-exists-p file)                       file)
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".Z"))         (concat file ".Z"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".gz"))        (concat file ".gz"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".z"))         (concat file ".z"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".info"))      (concat file ".info"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".info.gz"))   (concat file ".info.gz"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".info.Z"))    (concat file ".info.Z"))
-   ((file-exists-p (concat file ".info.z"))    (concat file ".info.z"))
-   ((vc-backend file)                          file) ; maybe VC has it?
-   (t                                          nil)))
+  "Return FILE if it exists, or return the first variation based on
+`Info-suffix-list' that exists, else return nil."
+  (if (file-exists-p file)
+      file
+    (require 'info)  ; ensure Info-suffix-list is bound
+    (catch 'found
+      (mapc (lambda (elt)
+              (let ((suffixed-file (concat file (car elt))))
+                (if (file-exists-p suffixed-file)
+                    (throw 'found suffixed-file))))
+            Info-suffix-list)
+      nil)))
 
 
 (defun bookmark-jump-noselect (str)