> From: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> > Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:35:29 -0500 > > Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> writes: > > > Here's what I don't get: suppose there are two versions of Emacs > > installed, emacs-x and emacs-y. Presumably Debian (and anyone else) has > > some method for the user to choose which one is invoked by just "emacs". > > Can't that method, whatever it is, also switch the Info files that are > > found? > > Among other things, I don't think that'd really be feasible on a > multi-user system. I don't want to change the docs (and currently the > default #! version as well) for everyone on the system just because I > want to check out the GCC 5 info pages.
In that case, the only viable alternative is some environment variable, perhaps even INFO_PATH, or some personal init file. > Perhaps it's naive, but I feel like I might just want a dir like this so > that I can find what I want and don't have to change global state and/or > restart the viewer just to read different versions: > > * Emacs 24 ... > * Emacs 25 ... > > * GCC 4.9 ... > * GCC 5.0 ... > > * Python 2.7 ... > * Python 3.4 ... That solves only a part of the problem, and not the most difficult part. The difficult part is cross-references between manuals. Those don't go through DIR, they load the specified Info file directly. How will an Info reader know which version of a manual to load, according to your suggestion? E.g., suppose I have 2 GCC versions and 2 GDB versions installed, and want to use a particular pair of them -- how would references from the GCC manual to GDB and vice versa show me the manual for the versions I use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
