Fwd: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list

[Mats]

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From: Mats <address@hidden>
Date: Dec 20, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list
To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

True, you cannot be sure that cygwin is installed there, but then what about the other directories on Info-default-directory-list?

("c:/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/lib/emacs/info/" "c:/program1/gnu/emacs/info/")

I for one has no emacs installed on c:\emacs\info. I also do not have any of the other directories but the last one (I am using MS windows 2000).

The proposed directory is by the way the default location for cygwin suggested by the cygwin setup program.

Thanks anyway.

/Mats

On 12/20/06, Eli Zaretskii < address@hidden> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:04:37 +0100
> From: Mats <address@hidden>
>
> If I add this to my .emacs, I can use emacs to browse my cygwin info files:
>
> (setq Info-default-directory-list (append Info-default-directory-list
>                                           (list
> "c:/cygwin/usr/share/info/")))
>
> Couldn't that directory be added to Info-default-directory-list by default?

Thank you for your report.

I don't think it's a good idea to add "c:/cygwin/usr/share/info/" to
the default directory list, since we cannot be sure that Cygwin is
installed on the C: drive.  What if it's installed on D: or F:?

In sum, I think this is for users to customize, not for Emacs to set
by default.  And Info-default-directory-list is precisely the variable
to customize.