Mercurial > emacs
changeset 31324:928516355e95
(Info-directory-list): Doc fix.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 01 Sep 2000 21:40:23 +0000 |
| parents | 1010a301ea56 |
| children | f365a6dc7773 |
| files | lisp/info.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/info.el Fri Sep 01 17:47:46 2000 +0000 +++ b/lisp/info.el Fri Sep 01 21:40:23 2000 +0000 @@ -88,13 +88,19 @@ nil means not yet initialized. In this case, Info uses the environment variable INFOPATH to initialize it, or `Info-default-directory-list' if there is no INFOPATH variable in the environment. -The last element of `Info-default-directory-list' is the directory -where Emacs installs the Info files that come with it. + +When `Info-directory-list' is initialized from the value of +`Info-default-directory-list', the first element of the resulting +list is the directory where Emacs installs the Info files that +come with it. This is so that Emacs's own manual, which suits the +version of Emacs you are using, will always be found first. (If +you want to override that, set INFOPATH in the environment.) If you run the Emacs executable from the `src' directory in the Emacs -source tree, the `info' directory in the source tree is used as the last -element, in place of the installation Info directory. This is useful -when you run a version of Emacs without installing it.") +source tree, and INFOPATH is not defined, the `info' directory in the +source tree is used as the first element of `Info-directory-list', in +place of the installation Info directory. This is useful when you run +a version of Emacs without installing it.") (defcustom Info-additional-directory-list nil "List of additional directories to search for Info documentation files.