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From: Jeremy Gray <gray@euthanasia.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: INFOPATH and emacs
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:22:29 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnb9tse4.u3i.gray@euthanasia.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E9EE2EE.5060709@yahoo.com

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.  

-- 
Jeremy A. Gray
gray@metacomet.net

"Remember the Pueblo." -- the Fourth Law of Marvin

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-17 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-16  6:34 INFOPATH and emacs Ritesh
2003-04-16 17:54 ` David Masterson
2003-04-17  5:18   ` Ritesh
2003-04-17  6:52     ` Jeremy Gray
2003-04-17 17:22       ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-17 19:22         ` Jeremy Gray [this message]
2003-04-17 20:12           ` Jeremy Gray
2003-04-17 19:26             ` David Masterson
2003-04-17 20:46               ` Jeremy Gray
2003-04-19  9:34             ` Ritesh
2003-04-19 11:38               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.4929.1050748877.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-19 19:03                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-20  7:03                   ` Ritesh
2003-04-22 13:44                     ` Ritesh
2003-04-19  8:44           ` Ritesh
2003-04-17 16:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-17 18:55   ` David Masterson
2003-04-17 20:21     ` Kai Großjohann

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