Prefer /usr/share/info/emacs/
authorRob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Sun, 7 Apr 2013 20:03:05 +0000 (15:03 -0500)
committerRob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Sun, 9 Nov 2025 19:48:20 +0000 (13:48 -0600)
Emacs prefers /usr/share/info/emacs to /usr/share/info.

The value of Info-default-directory-list has been augmented via
lisp/info.el to include /usr/share/info/emacs before /usr/share/info.

lisp/info.el

index 4aafe223549e9879812377df43ead826a3e1b7dc..4b414fca3fbd0235f84feb49c26768cc45044ace 100644 (file)
@@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ in `Info-file-supports-index-cookies-list'."
              (nconc standard-info-dirs (list config-dir))
            (cons config-dir standard-info-dirs))))
     (if (not (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
-       dirs
+       ;; Debian: add flavor info directory in front
+        (cons "/usr/share/info/emacs" dirs)
       ;; Include the info directory near where Emacs executable was installed.
       (let* ((instdir (file-name-directory invocation-directory))
             (dir1 (expand-file-name "../info/" instdir))