Hi Gavin,
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I didn't know that this was supposed to work. I saw this usage
> somewhere else a few weeks ago and I intended to look at it, so I
> guess if it's being done we should support it.
I was a bit surprised to see this, it is rather new, but several
packages are taking this approach.
> "info emacs-24/emacs" is now interpreting "emacs-24/emacs" as a path
> relative to the current directory, because it has a slash in it. Given
SO I thought.
> It's obviously useful to be able to access documentation for multiple
> installed versions of a manual at once. So I'm concerned that without
> separate dir entries (like "emacs-24", "emacs-25", "emacs-26"),
> running
>
> info emacs-24/emacs
> info emacs-25/emacs
> info emacs-26/emacs
What about encoding sub-dirs in the dir file with'::' like:
* Emacs: (emacs-24::emacs). The extensible self-documenting text
editor.
Then one could do
info emacs-24::emacs
etc?
> Another idea is to make sure all the directories containing Info files
> are in INFOPATH, and invoke with "info --all emacs". A possible
Waaahhhh, that doesn't sound like a very good solution!
Norbert
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