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Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed |
Date: |
Mon, 07 May 2012 20:46:02 +0300 |
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Bcc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:30:47 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > This is precisely what I'm asking to be fixed
> >
> > Fix how? By explicitly searching both PATH and INFOPATH?
>
> It can be fixed by the approach that I explained through pseudo-code and
> of which you said that "it will probably work". [1]
That would solve the problem of not displaying anything at all, but I
don't see how it can solve the situation with several manuals for the
same program.
The situation I have in mind is this:
. you have a program FOO in /usr/local/bin
. you have a manual for that program in /usr/local/share/info
. you also have an old manual for a previous version of FOO in
/opt/gnu/share/info, but no corresponding binary in /opt/gnu/bin
Now typing "FOO" at the shell prompt will invoke /usr/local/bin/FOO,
but typing "info FOO" will display /opt/gnu/share/info/FOO.info
(assuming PATH and INFOPATH are set as you show a few messages back in
this thread).
Am I missing something?
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, (continued)
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/06
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/07
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/07
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/07
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/07
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Bruno Haible, 2012/05/07
- Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed, Karl Berry, 2012/05/06