From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
Cc: 60762@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60762: 28.2; info--manual-names ignores Info-additional-directory-list
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmbiam0q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F43FE575-9B96-4AC8-BE42-4C6D0196FD22@toadstyle.org> (message from Sean Devlin on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:44:50 -0500)
> From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:44:50 -0500
>
> Info.el gives the following advice for customizing the Info manual
> search path:
>
> "Normally, you should either set INFOPATH or customize
> `Info-additional-directory-list' ..."
This text was removed, and will not appear in Emacs 29 and later.
> The variable Info-additional-directory-list is intended as the main
> Lisp-level customization point for users.
That is inaccurate. The main Lisp-level customization variable for
users is Info-default-directory-list. So the question I'd like to ask
before discussing the situations you describe is why don't you
customize Info-default-directory-list instead?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-13 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-12 23:44 bug#60762: 28.2; info--manual-names ignores Info-additional-directory-list Sean Devlin
2023-01-13 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-01-13 12:04 ` Sean Devlin
2023-01-13 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-13 17:45 ` Sean Devlin
2023-01-13 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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