Mercurial > emacs
changeset 15458:d4dceb1eaf56
(Info-default-directory-list): Doc fix.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:14:31 +0000 |
| parents | 1993f23c4bfe |
| children | 76ff60cd2b8d |
| files | lisp/paths.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/paths.el Wed Jun 19 21:50:16 1996 +0000 +++ b/lisp/paths.el Wed Jun 19 22:14:31 1996 +0000 @@ -44,10 +44,15 @@ (configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory))) (setq start (nconc start (list configdir))) start) - "List of directories to search for Info documentation files. -They are searched in the order they are given in this list. + "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files. +They are searched in the order they are given in the list. Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs -normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).") +normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones). + +Once Info is started, the list of directories to search +comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'. +This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default +for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started.") (defvar news-path (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")