From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: two Info entries from emacs20, 21 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:19:39 +0300 Organization: NetVision Israel Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <86it4k3pyv.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024208658 17072 127.0.0.1 (16 Jun 2002 06:24:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 06:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17JTST-0004RE-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:24:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17JTSR-0003Vg-00; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:24:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox1.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.53]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17JTQ9-0003SK-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from news. (news.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.15]) by mailbox1.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g5G6LcqW009630 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by news. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA19650; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:21:34 +0300 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: is!eliz Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: is.elta.co.il Original-X-Trace: news.netvision.net.il 1024208493 19648 199.203.121.2 (16 Jun 2002 06:21:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@netvision.net.il Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jun 2002 06:21:33 GMT X-Sender: eliz@is In-Reply-To: <86it4k3pyv.fsf@jidanni.org> Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2078 On 16 Jun 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: > This message consists of a debian problem and an emacs problem. First > the emacs problem. > > lets say one has > * Emacs: (emacs-20/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. > * Emacs: (emacs-21/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. > deep in the info dir. and say we hit C-h i m em tab > No amout of TAB etc. will reveal that there are actually 2 entries of > the same name. That's not an Emacs problem: this DIR entry is simply invalid. No two entries should have the same text before the first colon (in this case, they both say "Emacs"). So please file a bug report with Debian, since this DIR file comes from the Debian distribution. (The issue of supporting several versions of the same package so that you automatically get the right manual is a complex one, and it has been discussed several times in the past. There are no perfect solutions to that, but the one above is certainly not the right one, IMHO. My personal advice is to set the INFOPATH variable according to the version of the manual you want to read.)