From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Making it possible to use INFOPATH with Emacs info files Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:02:31 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <6wr6cldvyt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209729783 2179 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2008 12:03:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-emacs@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 14:03:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jrtz4-00004s-68 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 14:03:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrtyM-0002jG-M1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrtyI-0002hl-3L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrtyH-0002ge-5G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51247 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrtyG-0002gI-W3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrtyG-0003Gb-LY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:49406) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrtxt-0000sw-AO for bug-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrtyD-0003Fr-Bz for bug-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:36 -0400 Original-Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrty9-0003Eq-7O; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; t=1209729748; x=1210334548; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References; b=I2kNUSNX6UIOjSnpHvR7x52c+MBP0BEg886SngfSyH7XSv5BlINtSU9/I2Xo4ePgH10y2DaOB/740Mm18W3GlRKL1eiL9ns9a66TlcVM5HJJ0VEl+E3i6f8DOBSEnj+QAOkbrDHukUH00tGcPJ4ipBUY39T9HQ8wmmkscKgC614= Original-Received: from canta (cpc1-popl1-0-0-cust121.popl.cable.ntl.com [81.106.80.122]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id IRE56228; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:02:28 -0400 X-X-Sender: rrt@canta In-Reply-To: <6wr6cldvyt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17912 Archived-At: On Fri, 2 May 2008, Glenn Morris wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default >> for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless >> the environment variable INFOPATH is set. >> >> which means that if I set INFOPATH, then I don't get access to Emacs's own >> info files (under /usr/share/info/emacs-22) unless I manually add this path >> to Info-directory-list. > > The doc of Info-directory-list says that if INFOPATH ends in a colon, > INFOPATH is combined with Info-default-directory-list. Works for me. Joy, I am living in the future. Thanks very much. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | Analogy midwives, identity murders