From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Notes-Mode package problem (was dir(Top) is in French ?!?) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:33:07 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <861twij9ws.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86vbtup2ko.fsf@gmail.com> <8661lujcok.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398663327 29460 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2014 05:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 05:35:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 07:35:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WeeDn-0007wx-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WeeDn-0002N9-G9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: FBbxX6uxje+SXmxpIOXVag.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (cygwin) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:FC1nWdklc1ULvuXTUD388+O6DPM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205143 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97409 Archived-At: David Masterson writes: > David Masterson writes: > >> I don't think this was always this way. Perhaps some LANG variable got >> changed, but which? >> >> The very top of the Emacs Info has suddenly been translated to French. >> All of the menu items in the Info tree are still in English (AFAIK) -- >> just the first couple of paragraphs have changed as in: >> >> File: dir, Node: Top Ceci est le haut de l'arborescence INFO >> >> Ceci (le noeud Répertoire) fournit un menu des sujets majeurs. >> Taper « q » pour quitter, « ? » pour lister toutes les commandes Info, >> « d » pour revenir à cet endroit, >> « h » fournit un guide d'initiation pour les nouveaux venus, >> « mEmacs » démarre une consultation du manuel Emacs, etc. >> >> En Emacs, vous pouvez cliquer avec le bouton-2 de la souris sur un item menu >> ou sur une référence croisée pour le sélectionner. >> >> What's the problem? > > Found the problem! I installed the notes-mode package and it has a > "dir" file that is written in French. ELPA added this package to the > front of Info-directory-list and, so, this became the top of Info. > > Can someone fix Notes-Mode? By the way, this seems like a fundamental design problem with Info that has been inherent in Info as far back as I can remember. I believe I ran into this same issue some 15+ years ago. Basically, there should be one dir-top file (that can be LANG localized) in Emacs and all other dir files should be concatenated onto it. -- David Masterson Programmer At Large