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: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:40:21 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200209302143.g8ULhSk16564@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033447544 12906 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 04:45:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 04:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, 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 17wEuj-0003LH-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 06:45:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wFej-00047x-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:33:13 +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 17wEuu-0004bv-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wEtH-0004NK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wEtA-0004MF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wEt9-0004Lj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA07930; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:40:21 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Karl Berry In-Reply-To: <200209302143.g8ULhSk16564@f7.net> 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:8274 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8274 On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Karl Berry wrote: > The hard question is which one to choose... > > My suggestion would be, whichever is in the earlier dir file in the dir > path. That won't be a bad strategy, IMHO. However, the order of the directories in the search path might have nothing to do with dir files, it probably is more relevant to the order in which the user wants Info files (i.e. the manuals themselves) to be found. So we could be left with a wrong section.