From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs24 - Duplicates in Info-default-directory-list Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:06:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87ty9h8yd1.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313489186 18776 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2011 10:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:06:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 12:06:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXO-00064q-4c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:06:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXN-0001UL-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXJ-0001UG-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXI-00032e-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXI-00032R-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QtGXH-0005zx-FT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:06:15 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:06:15 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:06:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k1pzV0w4oHVVgufjN2EVjfq7vU8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81957 Archived-At: Rene writes: > It turns out the `Info-default-directory-list' variable holds > duplicates. For instance "/usr/local/share/info" appears twice. > > How can I configure emacs so that no duplicates get inserted in this > variable? > > Of course I can always (delete-dups Info-default-directory-list) but > I'd rather generate a clean version of Emacs24. Most likely, some ubuntu config in site-lisp or so uses something like (setq Info-default-directory-list (cons "/usr/local/share/info" Info-default-directory-list)) instead of using `add-to-list', which won't create dulicates. Bye, Tassilo