From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multiple inf files? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:10:50 +0100 Message-ID: <878xf3o49h.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87odnzh7u1.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171291408 6825 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2007 14:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:43:28 +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 Feb 12 15:43:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGcOn-0003eT-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:43:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGcOn-0004vT-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:43:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net y0Z2jp6wbzq5kmcykAkLzQOMigka0Ot2tthkA8M0SUT10K9hwT X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vTCAUXq10V6f5KZaGlD6xqg0Gt4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145525 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41129 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 12.02.2007 um 13:35 schrieb Hadron: > >> Why would my "info" interface (C-h i) show multiple info files for >> many >> of the sections? How would I query the physical info file location >> from >> the info interface? > > Because some versions of the same file(s) are installed at different > places. > > > Use locate or find. > > Or open each of the info files and then type C-x d to see where it's > being found. hmm. not good. e.g I have emacs21 installed and emacs snapshot but I dont want to see 3 versions of gnus inf at the top info node - only the one for the emacs I am running (emacs-snapshot). As it is I see two for /usr/share/info/emacs-snapshot and one for emacs-21. More debian complexity I daresay. A pain since you dont see which it is without doing C-x d