From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFOPATH and emacs Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:22:54 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E9EE2EE.5060709@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050600838 8424 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 17:33:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:33:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 17 19:33:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196DAK-0001hS-00 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196D9D-0007Ce-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:26:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050600166 2786411 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112060 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8559 Jeremy Gray wrote: > That means that info readers will only look in /home/ritesh/info for > info files. No. Ritesh wrote: > > i've also set INFOPATH:$HOME/info/: in my .bash_profile...the trailing > > ':' appends the complied in path so that my files are prepended to the > > already present files. info program is working fine, that is it displays > > the entire info tree beginning with my files as expected. So there is a discrepancy between the command line info program and Emacs' M-x info command in how an empty INFOPATH component is interpreted. I think Emacs should emulate info as closely as possible; if the OP agrees, he should use M-x report-emacs-bug to submit a bug report. -- Kevin Rodgers