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Re: file/directory named Config in current dir causes waring from texi2a


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: file/directory named Config in current dir causes waring from texi2any
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:36:37 +0100

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 01:38:48PM +0900, Jun T wrote:
> # Tested on Ubuntu22.04
> # texinfo-7.0.3,  configured with --prefix=$HOME/test
> 
> texi2any gives an warning if there s a file or directory named
> 'Config' in the current directory. I think the current directory
> should not be included in the default search path.
> 

texi2any is looking for an init file called 'Config'.  It is documented
in the texi2any_api manual:

>      Warning: The ‘Config’ file related paths and even the use of
>      ‘Config’ files is not definitive.
> 
>    You can write so-called “initialization files”, or “init files” for
> short, to modify almost every aspect of output formatting.  The program
> loads init files named ‘Config’ each time it is run.

I think that 'Config' is too generic a name for this.  We could look at
naming conventions used for init or run control files by different programs
and change it to something else.




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