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bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first |
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Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:28:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> 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
I agree completely.
The info setup is pretty convoluted, so I'm not quite sure what the
current state is. This is the default value in "emacs -Q" in Emacs 29:
Info-directory-list
("/home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
But it's with an uninstalled Emacs. Reading Info-default-dirs, it looks
like it's trying to do the right thing? So has this been solved already
at some point?
> (even before INFOPATH entries).
But I'm not sure about that. I don't think distributions set that by
default, but users do to alter stuff, so we should respect it.
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