From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info DIR file: Duplicate topic entries problem Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:55:36 +0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182617767 24911 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2007 16:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 18:56:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I28u4-0005Wz-4X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I28u3-0003yT-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I28ti-0003pK-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I28th-0003og-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I28th-0003oZ-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I28tg-0003SD-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:55:40 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-126-151.inter.net.il [84.229.126.151]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CXB35181 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:55:37 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from dhruva on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:02 +0530) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73713 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:07:02 +0530 > From: dhruva > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 6/23/07, dhruva wrote: > > On my system, "Info-directory-list" evaluates to "nil". Could this > > indicate a problem? > > Once I did "C-h i", a call to "info-initialize" is made and that > initialized the variable. Right. > It had the build location first. > ("e:/cache/build/emacs/info/" "e:/GNU/emacs/info/") As expected. I see a similar value on my machine. > I have a doubt: If the DIR file have unique entries, how does it show > duplicate entries on "C-h i"? > Does the info subsystem use the entries in DIR file and find all info > files corresponding to a menu item in the info path and display all > occurrences, that could explain the issue I am facing. Yes, this is what happens. Info assembles the DIR node from all the DIR files it finds in the directories mentioned in Info-directory-list. > To reaffirm, the DIR file is not corrupted, apologies for misleading. Thanks.