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bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:03:22 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I suggest to look at a typical Debian system with several Emacs
> versions installed, and see what kind of arrangement they use. At the
> time, this was one of the reasons for the complexity. Maybe it no
> longer exists, I don't know.
They install the info pages into /usr/share/info/emacs-N (sensible).
And then they patch info.el so that it finds those first:
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/emacs24/24.3+1-2/0001-Prefer-usr-share-info-emacs-24-over-usr-share-info.patch
So whatever info.el thought it was doing to suit Debian, it wasn't
enough anyway.
They should not have to have such a patch, it should work out of the box.
> In any case, the problem with being able to control where Emacs looks
> for the misc manuals still exists, for those Emacs packages that are
> developed and distributed separately.
I disagree that this is an issue.
1) No problem at all with package.el, before or after any change to info.el.
2) I have no data, but doubt this was a problem people were solving via
INFOPATH anyway.
3) To use a newer version of a built-in package, you have to customize
load-path. I maintain that it's fine to expect people to have to
customize Info-directory-list similarly. (Perhaps this part of info.el
should be preloaded to make this easier.)
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, (continued)
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, RĂ¼diger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first,
Glenn Morris <=
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/10
- bug#16407: Info-directory-list should always put this Emacs's info direc first, Achim Gratz, 2014/01/10