GNU bug report logs - #36828
27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation

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Message #42 received at 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: stepnem <at> gmail.com
Cc: 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ofv <at> wanadoo.es
Subject: Re: bug#36828: 27.0.50;
 Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:20:42 +0300

> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:11:45 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ofv <at> wanadoo.es
> 
> > From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
> > Cc: 36828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ofv <at> wanadoo.es
> > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:47:49 +0200
> > 
> > Indeed I do consider this a bug, and quite explicitely so. That emacs
> > should always default to using the data most relevant for the running
> > executable seems obvious to me. What am I missing?
> 
> I think you are missing the perspective of someone who considers the
> current behavior to be TRT.

And, of course, in the "usual" case Emacs does pick up the NEWS file
in the source tree.

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