From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 16407@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:05:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j07ga7iouy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834n5ccl7b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:09:12 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Also, when I am using Emacs, I am using the info reader that comes with
>> that Emacs. So I cannot think of a reason why (info "info") should show
>> me anything but the info.info that came with that Emacs.
>
> You cannot control that anyway, because "make install" in Texinfo will
> overwrite the version installed by Emacs, as they are (normally) in
> the same /usr/share/info directory.
I didn't explain well.
I was thinking of having several Emacs versions installed in different
directories. Obviously if you install them into the same prefix, the
info pages overwrite each other, and nothing can be done about that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 20:05 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 [this message]
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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