From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info DIR file: Duplicate topic entries problem
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:55:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u645epq47.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850706230937p3e1a6f6epf0a3ec1c34835033@mail.gmail.com> (message from dhruva on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:02 +0530)
> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:02 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 6/23/07, dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On my system, "Info-directory-list" evaluates to "nil". Could this
> > indicate a problem?
>
> Once I did "C-h i", a call to "info-initialize" is made and that
> initialized the variable.
Right.
> It had the build location first.
> ("e:/cache/build/emacs/info/" "e:/GNU/emacs/info/")
As expected. I see a similar value on my machine.
> I have a doubt: If the DIR file have unique entries, how does it show
> duplicate entries on "C-h i"?
> Does the info subsystem use the entries in DIR file and find all info
> files corresponding to a menu item in the info path and display all
> occurrences, that could explain the issue I am facing.
Yes, this is what happens. Info assembles the DIR node from all the
DIR files it finds in the directories mentioned in Info-directory-list.
> To reaffirm, the DIR file is not corrupted, apologies for misleading.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 3:36 info DIR file: Duplicate topic entries problem dhruva
2007-06-23 3:58 ` dhruva
2007-06-23 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-23 13:28 ` dhruva
2007-06-23 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-23 16:03 ` dhruva
2007-06-23 16:37 ` dhruva
2007-06-23 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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