From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 21:05:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83zldqcdki.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbzzs7ax.fsf@gmail.com> <8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org> <86bpq6iann.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241633110 14754 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2009 18:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 18:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gilaras Drakeson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 20:05:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M1lUJ-0000Bh-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 20:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1lUI-0008MK-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 14:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1lUD-0008LJ-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 14:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1lUC-0008KE-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 14:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44174 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1lUC-0008K3-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 14:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:53270) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1lUB-0000S3-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 14:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KJ800A00HUXWS00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 21:04:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.230.216]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KJ800N4EI7U2T30@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Wed, 06 May 2009 21:04:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86bpq6iann.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110735 Archived-At: > From: Gilaras Drakeson > Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:11:24 -0400 > > > >> --8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<--- > >> ;; info files > >> (list "\.info$" > >> (cond > >> ((eq system-type 'windows-nt) > >> "for %i in ( * ) do install-info \"%i\" \"%~pi\\dir\"") > >> (t ; bash > >> "for i in * ; do p=`dirname \"$i\"`;install-info $i $p/dir\"; done")) > >> ) > >> --8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<--- > > > Also, I'm not sure I understand what is this command trying to do. It > > seems to try to install Info files in the subdirectory named literally > > `dir' of the directory where those Info files live? > > "dir" is a plain text file into which install-info adds entries. But why in the same directory as the original files? That's not how install-info is normally used.