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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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Subject: Info bug
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Info's still being weird.


My site-start.el has

	(setq Info-default-directory-list
	      (list
	       "/usr/info"
	       "/usr/local/info"
	       (format "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-%d.%d-b%d/info"
		       emacs-major-version
		       emacs-minor-version
		       emacs-beta-version)
	       "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info"))

which unsurprisingly sets Info-default-directory-list to

	("/usr/info"
	 "/usr/local/info"
	 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b21/info"
	 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info")

Info-directory-list gets set to

	("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info"
	 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b21/info"
	 "/usr/local/info"
	 "/usr/info")

which is just the reverse of Info-default-directory-list.

But the order of the nodes in the info buffer is

	/usr/info
	/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info
	/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b21/info
	/usr/local/info

All directories have a `dir' file and no `localdir' file:

	cerise:~$ ls /usr{,/local{,/lib/xemacs{/packages,-20.3-b21}}}/info/{,local}dir
	ls: /usr/info/localdir: No such file or directory
	ls: /usr/local/info/localdir: No such file or directory
	ls: /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info/localdir: No such file or directory
	ls: /usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b21/info/localdir: No such file or directory
	/usr/info/dir
	/usr/local/info/dir
	/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b21/info/dir
	/usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages/info/dir

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

