Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Gavin, > Here's my attempt at making this work, which internally prefixes file > paths with "./" when they truly are relative to the current directory > and should not be looked up in the search path. Looks fine to me. What works is selecting the emacs-24/emacs node in the dir file (s

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 20:08:47 +0200 > From: Vincent Lefevre > Cc: Norbert Preining , gavinsmith0...@gmail.com, > 792...@bugs.debian.org, bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > > Then one could do > > > info emacs-24::emacs > > > etc? > > > > Please don't make characters other than slashes magic i

Re: (fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On 15 July 2015 at 19:50, Gavin Smith wrote: > Here's my attempt at making this work Attached this time. Index: ChangeLog === --- ChangeLog (revision 6432) +++ ChangeLog (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ 2015-07-15 Gavin Smith + *

Re: (fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On 15 July 2015 at 00:23, Norbert Preining wrote: > down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that > info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems: > In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory: > /usr/share/info/emacs-24/ema

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-15 18:06:42 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:06:03 +0900 > > From: Norbert Preining > > Cc: 792...@bugs.debian.org, Vincent Lefevre , > > Texinfo > > > > What about encoding sub-dirs in the dir file with'::' like: > > * Emacs: (emacs-24::emacs). T

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-15 15:39:37 +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > It will be possible to get > > * Emacs24: (emacs-24/emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. > > to work (so run "info Emacs24" or "info emacs24"), but not "info > emacs-24/emacs". This is nicer, but note that the emacs-24 direc

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:06:03 +0900 > From: Norbert Preining > Cc: 792...@bugs.debian.org, Vincent Lefevre , > Texinfo > > What about encoding sub-dirs in the dir file with'::' like: > * Emacs: (emacs-24::emacs). The extensible self-documenting text > editor. > > Then one

Re: (fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:14:41 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith > Cc: 792...@bugs.debian.org, Vincent Lefevre , > Texinfo > > > down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that > > info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems: > > In our case this is t

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On 15 July 2015 at 15:06, Norbert Preining wrote: > 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. Gi

Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Norbert Preining
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

Re: (fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On 15 July 2015 at 00:23, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that > info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems: > In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory: > /usr/share/

(fwd) Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

2015-07-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems: In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory: /usr/share/info/emacs-24/emacs.info.gz The respective dir entry looks li