Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir -- SOLVED?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:46:59PM +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> felix@×××××××.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.

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