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Bug 403060 - Yelp cannot handle multiple paths in INFOPATH
Yelp cannot handle multiple paths in INFOPATH
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: Info Pages
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on: 452323
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-01 02:26 UTC by Alex Lancaster
Modified: 2018-05-22 12:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Alex Lancaster 2007-02-01 02:26:13 UTC 
Let's say you have an alternative Emacs installation in /opt/EmacsCVS/ and the info directory is /opt/Emacs/info/, you set $INFOPATH to:

export INFOPATH=/opt/EmacsCVS/info:/usr/share/info/

If you run "yelp", you will only see the info pages in the first part of the INFOPATH, i.e. /opt/Emacs/info/, yelp will not show any of the info pages in /usr/share/info.
Comment 1 Alex Lancaster 2007-02-01 02:28:43 UTC 
Note that emacs or the standalone "info" reader expects handle multiple paths in INFODIR and it is necessary to be able to set INFODIR to multiple paths so that info and emacs will find the appropriate documentation as expected.
Comment 2 Don Scorgie 2007-04-16 19:23:13 UTC 
Confirming.  I have no idea what's going on here, but I'll look into it soon.  (Spoon integration, which should happen in 2.20 will change this code substantially anyway).
Comment 3 Daniel Macks 2007-04-16 19:30:38 UTC 
Is this an issue with use of the dir file vs reading all available .info pages? I think the usual "info" readers start up with the first dir file found along INFOPATH. This might be quite different than info'ing for a specific topic, which would look for it among all files instead of displaying a pre-created index of them (one needs to install-info each .info page into the dir, not automatic). Just pondering aloud here...
Comment 4 Don Scorgie 2007-06-29 17:53:48 UTC 
Making depend on new pager system tracker bug as the issue seems fixed there...
Comment 5 Rupert Swarbrick 2010-06-12 17:00:11 UTC 
This appears to be fixed in the current upstream.
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 12:44:02 UTC 
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