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bug#60762: 28.2; info--manual-names ignores Info-additional-directory-li
From: |
Sean Devlin |
Subject: |
bug#60762: 28.2; info--manual-names ignores Info-additional-directory-list |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:04:53 -0500 |
> On Jan 13, 2023, at 3:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:44:50 -0500
>>
>> Info.el gives the following advice for customizing the Info manual
>> search path:
>>
>> "Normally, you should either set INFOPATH or customize
>> `Info-additional-directory-list' ..."
>
> This text was removed, and will not appear in Emacs 29 and later.
Ok.
>
>> The variable Info-additional-directory-list is intended as the main
>> Lisp-level customization point for users.
>
> That is inaccurate. The main Lisp-level customization variable for
> users is Info-default-directory-list. So the question I'd like to ask
> before discussing the situations you describe is why don't you
> customize Info-default-directory-list instead?
The documentation string for Info-default-directory says:
“Although this is a customizable variable, that is mainly for technical
reasons. Normally, you should either set INFOPATH or customize
`Info-additional-directory-list', rather than changing this variable.”
To me, this suggests that users should prefer
Info-additional-directory-list. I guess that will change in Emacs 29,
but that is not released yet.
In any case, the documentation string for
Info-additional-directory-list says:
“List of additional directories to search for Info documentation files.
These directories are searched after those in `Info-directory-list’.”
Which is not true in the case I cited.
I am not running Emacs 29 to test, but the documentation for
Info-additional-directory-list and the code for info--manual-names do
not appear to have changed on that branch.
To be clear, I have already worked around this issue in my own
configuration.
Thanks.
>
> Thanks.