From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Ballard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: define Info's "dir"? Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:07:56 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083299626 3572 80.91.224.253 (30 Apr 2004 04:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 06:33:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJPiT-0003uO-00 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:33:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJPS3-0006CR-OY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:16:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn52feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!de648aa3!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.199.37.194 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1083298076 151.199.37.194 (Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:07:56 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:07:56 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122856 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18145 On Fri Apr 30, Eli Zaretskii disturbed my nap when he said: > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > > From: Mike Ballard > > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:16:48 GMT > > > > I use gentoo. For some (to me, inexplicable) reason the gentoo folks have > > decided to have emerge (the tool for installing new sources) search for > > "dir" files and in some cases rename them to dir.old. > > Well, if you rename `dir' into `dir.info', will emerge leave it alone? > If it will, you have your solution, I think. > Thanks - "dir.info" is apparently not detected and therefore left untouched by emerge. I didn't know that was a valid name - thanks for the help... Mike -- mikeballard--at--verizon.net "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic and so am I"