From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 06:49:42 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200209212213.RAA06463@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032670510 23169 127.0.0.1 (22 Sep 2002 04:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 04:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17sylv-00061Z-00 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 06:55:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17szRZ-00048g-00 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:38:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17sylv-0004Ef-00; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17syjy-0004Aa-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17syjr-00047v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17syjr-00047p-00; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA28341; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 06:49:42 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200209212213.RAA06463@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8090 On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > 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. That's probably true, as "make install" installs the DIR file which came with the distribution, and the place it puts that file does not depend on the Emacs version. > 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. Right. In general, it's the job of install-info to remove redundant sections, but it only does so for a single DIR file, the one whose file name it gets from the command-line arguments.