From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package-quickstart and info:
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:16:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7nsmjj4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210107211432.ADCC7C21F3D@raman-glaptop.localdomain> (T. V. Raman's message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2021 13:14:32 -0800 (PST)")
> While debugging something else with force-load-messages set to t, I
> noticed that loading package-quickstart.el loads info -- is there a
> good reason for this?
IIRC when a package includes an Info manual, we load `info` before
modifying the `Info-directory-list`. This could be improved to avoid
loading `info`.
The place where this happens in the non-quickstart case is
`package-activate-1` and in `package-quickstart-refresh` you can see
similar code being added to the quickstart file.
IIRC the problem is that depending on whether
`info-initialize` has already been called or not, we need to add the
directory either to `Info-directory-list` or to
`Info-default-directory-list`.
Patches welcome (and if you need more info about the precise
relationship between those two Info*directory-list vars, I think Eli is
the one who knows all about it).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-07 21:14 package-quickstart and info: T.V Raman
2021-01-07 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-01-07 23:40 ` T.V Raman
2021-01-08 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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