From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 16407@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:28:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuajri0s.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d038kwjsn4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:46:39 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> 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
I agree completely.
The info setup is pretty convoluted, so I'm not quite sure what the
current state is. This is the default value in "emacs -Q" in Emacs 29:
Info-directory-list
("/home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
But it's with an uninstalled Emacs. Reading Info-default-dirs, it looks
like it's trying to do the right thing? So has this been solved already
at some point?
> (even before INFOPATH entries).
But I'm not sure about that. I don't think distributions set that by
default, but users do to alter stuff, so we should respect it.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-23 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2022-05-22 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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