From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, karl@freefriends.org, hattons@speakeasy.net,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:13:00 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209212213.RAA06463@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17sq5t-0002z9-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:39:09 -0400)
Richard Stallman wrote:
Can you try to track down how it came to be that these various different
dir files got installed? Which versions of which packages installed them?
Yes.
ELISP> Info-directory-list
("/usr/local/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/info/"
"/usr/share/info/" "/usr/local/info/")
The dir file in /usr/local/info was installed (or updated) by
emacs-21.3.50.
/usr/local/share/info is an empty directory.
The dir file in /usr/info was installed by texinfo-4.2.
The dir file in /usr/share/info (a symlink to /etc/info-dir) came with
Red Hat 7.2.
I have the impression that any "dir" files installed by emacs-21.1.90
or 21.2.90 got overridden by emacs-23.3.50.
This is not a bug in info.el, but I wonder if it could merge these sections
rather than just putting them in side by side.
That might be more difficult than might appear at first.
What seems to complicate matters a lot is the fact that identical or
nearly identical sections, as well as individual entries, may have
different names.
I have a section "Emacs" installed (or updated) by emacs-21.3.50 and a
nearly identical section "GNU Emacs" in the "dir" installed by
Red Hat 7.2.
I have entries:
* info standalone: (info-stnd). Read Info documents without
Emacs.
and:
* Standalone info program: (info-stnd). Standalone Info-reading
program.
in different "Texinfo documentation system" sections that lead to
exactly the same *info* buffer.
It would be relatively easy for me to hand correct my own messy
situation, but finding a good general solution seems difficult.
I do not know how frequently the problem I encountered occurs for
other people.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-21 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-16 0:02 Emacs cvs newbie problems Karl Berry
2002-09-16 1:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-16 2:14 ` Alan Shutko
2002-09-16 5:40 ` Rob Browning
2002-09-18 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-16 1:51 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-16 19:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-18 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 3:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20 4:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 18:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-20 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 22:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20 22:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-21 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-21 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-21 22:13 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2002-09-22 4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 3:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-30 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 6:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 7:49 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 22:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-08 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-07 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 15:57 Karl Berry
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 13:00 Karl Berry
2002-10-04 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-06 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 15:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 4:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-04 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 10:05 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-04 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 18:28 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03 0:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 17:24 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 21:43 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30 14:12 Karl Berry
2002-09-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 6:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-16 21:07 Karl Berry
2002-09-14 20:40 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-14 22:11 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 23:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 1:24 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15 2:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 11:13 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15 12:42 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 0:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 15:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 15:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-14 6:20 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 6:40 ` Damien Elmes
2002-09-15 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
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