From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>,
larsi@gnus.org, 54961@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:01:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmA8XMuTj2U3Kf54@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yn5ui65.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:55:30PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > on emacs -Q (on mac)
> >
> > Info-default-directory-list
> > ("/Applications/GnuEmacs.app/Contents/Resources/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
> >
> > after running C-h i, Info-directory-list is the same
> > ("/Applications/GnuEmacs.app/Contents/Resources/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
<snip>
> But then info-initialize, which is supposed to implement the above,
> deviates from that behavior on macOS, with this commentary:
>
> ;; For a self-contained (ie relocatable) NS build, AFAICS we
> ;; always want the included info directory to be at the head of
> ;; the search path, unless it's already in INFOPATH somewhere.
> ;; It's at the head of Info-default-directory-list,
> ;; but there's no way to get it at the head of Info-directory-list
> ;; except by doing it here.
>
> I cannot say I understand this reasoning, and neither do I understand
> whether this explains what you see in your case (because I don't know
> what is meant by "self-contained i.e. relocatable NS build".
I'm not sure what the reasoning is either.
The self-contained build is where all Emacs's files are installed in a
special directory, in this case "/Applications/GnuEmacs.app" which can
be placed anywhere on the filesystem and run from the GUI.
My uneducated guess is that it's possible to have a "UNIX" style
install already on a machine, which might be in /usr and then want to
run the self-contained version and not pick up the files in /usr
before the self-contained version's files.
I've no idea if that's plausible.
It looks like Glen's included a couple of links about why this was
done in change eb7afdaddc286b57253cf0cd643b2ea594fb130c.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-20 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-15 19:04 bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues Howard Melman
2022-04-16 9:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-16 11:27 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-16 14:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-16 14:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-16 15:21 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-16 15:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-18 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-18 19:45 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-18 21:28 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-19 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 13:27 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-19 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 18:43 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-19 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 19:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-20 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 12:00 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-20 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 19:07 ` Howard Melman
2022-04-19 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 19:24 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-20 17:01 ` Alan Third [this message]
2022-04-20 19:10 ` Howard Melman
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