bug#27933: emacs25: default info dir initialization slow with remote filesystems

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> I've tried to get the same behaviour that I had, namley that of
> INFOPATH + Info-default-directory-list (in that order).  The only
> thing that comes to mind is explicitly calling
> Info--default-directory-list to set it up; which doesn't seem very
> nice.
>
>   (add-hook 'Info-mode-hook
>         (lambda ()
>           (setq Info-additional-directory-list 
>                 (if (fboundp 'Info--default-directory-list)
>                     (Info--default-directory-list)
>                   Info-default-directory-list))))

Yes, that's basically what I had in mind for people who wants both.  But
in that case Info--default-directory-list should probably be renamed to
`Info-default-directory-list'...

> If one could re-do all of this, having Info-additional-directory-list
> be initialized to INFOPATH would have made most sense.  There can be
> very few reasons to delete the default Emacs info directory locations,
> and having INFOPATH override those always seemed backwards, and not
> what stand-alone Info does -- so while the Emacs documentation says
> that one should customize INFOPATH for both, the customizations aren't
> really the same :-(

Yup.  But that'd probably be even less backwards-compatible.

> PS.  Shouldn't bugs become unarchived when someone replies to an
> already archived one?  The discussion here is now lost in the ether...

Indeed; it's one of the most annoying things about debbugs.

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