* Info-directory-list initialization
@ 2009-07-23 10:19 Karl Eichwalder
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From: Karl Eichwalder @ 2009-07-23 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
I'm wondering whether Info-directory-list initialization actually works
as said in the Info-directory-list docstring:
... or the
concatenation of the two if INFOPATH ends with a colon.
When `Info-directory-list' is initialized from the value of
`Info-default-directory-list', and Emacs is not installed in one
of the standard directories, the first element of the resulting
list is the directory where Emacs installs the Info files that
come with it. This is so that Emacs's own manual, which suits the
version of Emacs you are using, will always be found first.
I installed emacs 23.1.50 from CVS with --prefix=/gnu. When I start
emacs with
INFOPATH=: /gnu/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file
I see:
Info-directory-list is a variable defined in `info.el'.
Its value is
("" "/gnu/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
But when I call C-h i, emacs offers Info files from /usr/share/info for
reading instead of /gnu/share/info, which comes earlier. I can read the
files from /gnu/share/info, when I call
INFOPATH=/gnu/share/info /gnu/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file
--
Karl Eichwalder
R&D / Documentation
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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