Subject: bug#16644: 24.3.50; Can't get Git Org mode info files before info files bundled with Emacs

From: "Sebastien Vauban" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:12:05 +0100

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Sebastien Vauban" <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:26:10 +0100
>> 
>> > The docstring of `Info-default-directory-list' says:
>> >
>> >   ╭────
>> >   │ Although this is a customizable variable, that is mainly for technical
>> >   │ reasons.  Normally, you should either set INFOPATH or customize
>> >   │ `Info-additional-directory-list', rather than changing this variable.
>> >   ╰────
>> >
>> > But that's was astonishes me: while setting
>> > `Info-default-directory-list' builds an wrongly ordered
>> > `Info-directory-list', setting `Info-additional-directory-list' had _no_
>> > impact on `Info-directory-list'...
>> 
>> What is supposed to be the right way in these conditions?
>
> Do you customize Info-additional-directory-list before or after
> info.elc is loaded?

Before, because it's in my minimal Emacs configuration file.

When Emacs is up, `Info-directory-list' is not even known yet, proof
that `info.el' has not yet been loaded. It is known once I do `C-h i'.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban