From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:07:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obwuvne3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ipn3mb41.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:55:42 +0200")
>> True, but this is what I see on GNU/Linux in "(dir) Top", at the top:
>>
>> * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
>>
>> and in the "Texinfo documentation system" section:
>>
>> * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
>>
>> The former is from the Emacs source tree, and the latter duplicate
>> is from /usr/share/info/.
>
> Emacs cannot fix that. You need to fix this by re-arranging and/or
> editing your DIR files.
I don't want to edit installed DIR files, and on systems where you have
no root privileges you can't edit them anyway.
>> The problem with removing duplicates is its heuristics that is too
>> unpredictable and ad-hoc. Sometimes it leaves duplicates not removed,
>> and sometimes removes non-duplicates, e.g. I see that it removed the
>> second entry from these lines in `dir':
>>
>> * _exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
>> * _Exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
>
> Case sensitivity? Anyway, if the code in Info-dir-remove-duplicates
> is imperfect, we should improve it.
Yes, it seems this case insensitivity is intentional
in `Info-dir-remove-duplicates'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-27 19:15 bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory Dani Moncayo
2011-10-28 16:38 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-28 17:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 18:23 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-29 18:55 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 19:16 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-29 20:41 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-31 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-29 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-29 21:19 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-31 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-31 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-01 9:29 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-01 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-01 22:31 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-02 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 10:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 10:07 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2011-11-02 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-02 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-02 17:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-02 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-02 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-05 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-26 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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