From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 16407@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:46:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d038kwjsn4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Severity: minor
The initialization of Info-directory-list is rather complicated.
Part of it uses this logic:
Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs normally
should come last (so that local files override standard ones), unless
Emacs is installed into a non-standard directory. In the latter case,
the directory of Info files that come with Emacs should be first in
this list.
I don't think this logic makes sense any more. I think the directory of
Info files that come with Emacs should *always* be placed at the front of
the result (even before INFOPATH entries).
I assume the current logic dates from a time when it was thought likely
that a site might want to customize the Emacs info pages. I don't think
this happens any more. What I think does happen is people having
multiple versions of Emacs installed. In this case, I think Emacs
version N should always display the info pages associated with version N.
So Emacs should always put its own info directory first.
next reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 5:46 Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-01-10 7:16 ` bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 7:38 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 7:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 7:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:03 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 8:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 16:36 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-10 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:11 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 21:03 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 23:21 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 19:47 ` Achim Gratz
2022-04-23 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-22 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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