From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUkkG-0006u0-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33CD5E054D; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CECE054D for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30176 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Feb 2008 15:32:14 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:32:14 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir -- SOLVED? Message-ID: <20080228153214.GA25584@crowfix.com> References: <20080225235617.GA6659@crowfix.com> <87ejb0766w.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20080226154659.GA19204@crowfix.com> <878x1772u4.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878x1772u4.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: fe544296-aa05-4dd3-b8dd-38214f68dfad X-Archives-Hash: d0ade6fd9e31a244f9d97e648f86510c On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:46:59PM +0000, Graham Murray wrote: > felix@crowfix.com writes: > > > Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I > > still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at > > the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding > > the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs-22 and > > emacs-23 options, which presumably correspond to the two subdirs of > > the same name, but I still have the three year old .gz info files > > which are probably the emacs-21 files, and which is what info finds. > > I know that this is not much help to you, but it works for me. I am > currently running emacs-23. If, in a normal user bash session I type > 'info emacs' it tells me it is for version 23.0.50. I then changed to > emacs-22 using eslect in a root session. Back in the original user > session I then typed 'source /etc/profile' (to pick up the changes made > by eslect) then ran 'info emacs' and it indicated it was for version > 22.1. This is, I believe, the expected behaviour. I had not thought that env vars were at work, so that might have been a problem if I ever got that far, but I was always getting emacs-21 info regardless. So I moved all the old emacs-21 info files into a subdir where they can't be found by mistake, rebooted for other reasons, and now get emacs-23 info. I think those old stale files were the visible problem hiding what would have been a new problem. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list