Yeah, I'm here. What's the compelling reason to remove a feature that
exists in Emacs Info?
(1) grep doesn't find the string localdir in the emacs/20.6/lisp/ files.
(2) what I'm asking is, why does the feature exist in the first place?
It must have been useful for some reason to search for dir files
under the name "localdir" as well as "dir", but I can't guess what
it is. Can you tell me?
Thanks,
Karl
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:32:03 -0800
From: "Brian J. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: texinfo-4.0: Crashes on Red Hat 6.1 system
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:19:58 -0500
From: Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's another name that can be used for (presumably locally
installed) dir files. The Info reader looks for `dir' and
`localdir' in each directory
Right, I knew that part, sorry I wasn't clear. The question is, why was
localdir invented? Why should localdir be read as well as dir?
There's a note in the ChangeLog that says:
Mon Jan 25 10:59:49 1993 Brian Fox (bfox@cubit)
* info/dir.c: New file implements Gillespies `localdir' hacks.
Which is less than illuminating. In the absence of any compelling
arguments to the contrary, I don't see any reason to keep supporting
localdir ... Brian, are you there?
Yeah, I'm here. What's the compelling reason to remove a feature that
exists in Emacs Info?
