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bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:07:54 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> True, but this is what I see on GNU/Linux in "(dir) Top", at the top:
>>
>> * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
>>
>> and in the "Texinfo documentation system" section:
>>
>> * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
>>
>> The former is from the Emacs source tree, and the latter duplicate
>> is from /usr/share/info/.
>
> Emacs cannot fix that. You need to fix this by re-arranging and/or
> editing your DIR files.
I don't want to edit installed DIR files, and on systems where you have
no root privileges you can't edit them anyway.
>> The problem with removing duplicates is its heuristics that is too
>> unpredictable and ad-hoc. Sometimes it leaves duplicates not removed,
>> and sometimes removes non-duplicates, e.g. I see that it removed the
>> second entry from these lines in `dir':
>>
>> * _exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
>> * _Exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
>
> Case sensitivity? Anyway, if the code in Info-dir-remove-duplicates
> is imperfect, we should improve it.
Yes, it seems this case insensitivity is intentional
in `Info-dir-remove-duplicates'.
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Juri Linkov, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Juri Linkov, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Drew Adams, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Andreas Schwab, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/05