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* bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first
@ 2014-01-10  5:46 Glenn Morris
  2014-01-10  7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2022-04-23 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-01-10  5:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 16407

Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Severity: minor

The initialization of Info-directory-list is rather complicated.
Part of it uses this logic:

   Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs normally
   should come last (so that local files override standard ones), unless
   Emacs is installed into a non-standard directory. In the latter case,
   the directory of Info files that come with Emacs should be first in
   this list.

I don't think this logic makes sense any more. I think the directory of
Info files that come with Emacs should *always* be placed at the front of
the result (even before INFOPATH entries).

I assume the current logic dates from a time when it was thought likely
that a site might want to customize the Emacs info pages. I don't think
this happens any more. What I think does happen is people having
multiple versions of Emacs installed. In this case, I think Emacs
version N should always display the info pages associated with version N.
So Emacs should always put its own info directory first.





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2014-01-10  5:46 bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10  7:38   ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  7:44     ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  7:50       ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  8:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:03           ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  8:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:05         ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10  8:05     ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10  8:21       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 15:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 15:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 16:36             ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-10  8:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:11       ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 21:03           ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 23:21             ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:54         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 19:47     ` Achim Gratz
2022-04-23 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-22 11:33   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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