Re: Info-directory-list
sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
Hrvoje> Info-directory-list should not be customizable at all.
You're right. I suspect this perversion (Info-directory-list isn't
even defcustom'ed) came about, because the documentation used to say
`Info-default-directory-list' at that place, which never worked
right either.
OK.
Now, what we need is a variable that *can* be customized, and that is
nil by default. Info would then use something like
(append <that-variable> Info-directory-list) for its directory search.
Code will be fully backward compatible wrt user customizations because
modifications of Info-directory-list will still work.
I propose that the new variable be named Info-default-directory-list,
because GNU Emacs calls it that way (and also defaults it to nil.)