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25.1.50; `C-h i' in an uninstalled Emacs doesn't work

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23208: 25.1.50; `C-h i' in an uninstalled Emacs doesn't work
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:12:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 20:59:43 +0200
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that it didn't work in the olden days, too, but it was
>> fixed a few years ago.  And now it doesn't work again.
>
> It does here.
>
> Do you have INFOPATH set in the environment?

(getenv "INFOPATH")
=> nil

>> `C-h i' should default to .../info/dir if no dir file exists in
>> `Info-directory-list'.
>
> What do you have in Info-default-directory-list, upon starting an
> uninstalled Emacs?

Hm...  d'oh!  I was setting `Info-directory-list' in my .emacs.

Sorry for the noise; closing.

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