Re: Bug#793067: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Gavin Smith]

On 4 August 2015 at 20:10, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate on what would constitute a complete solution?
>
> A solution that supports inter-manual links, both in Info and in HTML
> formats.  To do this on a per-user basis, we would need some
> environment variable or/and user init file that would tell the Info
> reader what version of which manual it should look for, so that it
> could automagically substitute a reference to a "foo" manual with
> "foo-1.2.3".

This could be done with a directory full of symlinks in the user's
home directory. For example, from ~/local/info/indirect/foo.info to
/usr/local/share/info/foo-1.2.3.info. ~/local/info/indirect would be
early in INFOPATH and references to the "foo" manual would be resolved
appropriately. Split Info files complicate the situation: either all
the subfiles would need to be symlinked, or the browser would have to
be able to find the containing directory of the target of the symlink.
(Avoiding split Info files in such circumstances would be the simplest
solution.)