Re: INFOPATH and emacs

[sood@tenet.res.in (Ritesh)]

Jeremy Gray <gray@euthanasia.ath.cx> wrote in message news:<slrnb9tse4.u3i.gray@euthanasia.ath.cx>...
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:  
> > Jeremy Gray wrote:
> >> 
> >> That means that info readers will only look in /home/ritesh/info for
> >> info files.
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Yep, your right.  I never heard of the info's trailing colon feature
> before.  Plus I only found the info standalone node today (I always
> wondered where that was), and the manpage doesn't mention it.  
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think setting the entire path is easier in the long run since it
> works for both info and info-mode.  But, I think this is a easily fixed
> bug.

that can be done, of-course, but that is hardly 'elegant'. Also, as
Jeremy
Gray says, emacs should emulate info as closely as possible. if info
is happy with the trailing ':', so should emacs be....