Mike Fabian <mike.fabian(a)gmx.de> writes:
I just tried in GNU Emacs 20.3.1 and it doesn't seem to default
to nil
there, it was set to
("/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/info/"
"/usr/info/")
after starting emacs with `emacs -q'.
Eek. Then they suck too. For Customize to withstand changes of
default value, we really need a list variable that is nil by default.
A slightly weird behaviour of XEmacs with respect to
Info-directory-list is that it does use the value of environment
variable INFOPATH, but appends it's contents to the end of
Info-directory-list. Therefore, info-files in the
.../lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/ directory shadow info-files of
the same names in directories from INFOPATH. Is this intentional?
I think it's intentional. The `XEmacs' stuff is supposed to come
first. When using info from within XEmacs, a beginner is likely to be
looking for information on XEmacs itself.
I didn't like that, because newer info-files installed somewhere
in
my HOME directory were shadowed by the older ones which came with
XEmacs.
"Shadowed" implies that you can't see the ones that come latter. Is
that really the case? What should happen is that they are listed
later, but you should still be able get them by following the right
link.