app-editors/emacs-cvs-23.0.9999-r2 (possibly other versions) ~amd64 The site-init file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el sets INFOPATH so: ;;; emacs-cvs-23 site-lisp configuration (when (string-match "\\`23\\.0\\.96\\>" emacs-version) ;;(setq find-function-C-source-directory ;; "/usr/share/emacs/23.0.96/src") (let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH")) (dir "/usr/share/info/emacs-23")) (and path ;; move Emacs Info dir to beginning of list (setq Info-directory-list (cons dir (delete dir (split-string path ":" t))))))) The recommended practice for setting INFOPATH to first check /usr/local/share/info is contramanded by the method of setting INFOPATH in site-gentoo.el. The method recommended is ordinarily to set INFOPATH in .bashrc or elsewhere. I set INFOPATH as follows: export INFOPATH="/usr/local/share/info:${INFOPATH}" Standalone info in a terminal will find a locally installed version of org-mode's info documentation, installed from git. However, emacs' info reader does not. Even when I set the Info-default-director and other variables in ~/.emacs, the version in /usr/local/share/info was not found by emacs Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: For example: 1. Install org-mode from git source, with info files in /usr/local/share/info 2. Run $ info in a terminal: the newly installed version appears 3. Run info in emacs, the emacs' own version is displayed Expected Results: Using the upstream prescribed methods for installing local info docs would result in emacs info finding them.
Does it fix the problem for you if the Emacs Info dir is just moved before /usr/share/info? Replacing above-mentioned code by the following should do this (you may have to adapt the version numbers): (when (string-match "\\`23\\.0\\.96\\>" emacs-version) (let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH")) (dir "/usr/share/info/emacs-23")) (and path ;; move dir before anything else in /usr/share/info (let ((p (split-string path ":" t)) q) (while (and p (not (string-match "\\`/usr/share/info\\b" (car p)))) (push (pop p) q)) (setq Info-directory-list (prune-directory-list (nconc (nreverse q) (cons dir (delete dir p)))))))))
(In reply to comment #1) > Does it fix the problem for you if the Emacs Info dir is just moved before > /usr/share/info? Replacing above-mentioned code by the following should do this > (you may have to adapt the version numbers): This works for me.
I've committed a slightly different fix for emacs-23.1 and emacs-cvs-23.1.9999-r1. No revision bump since this is a small change. The stable version (emacs-22.3-r2) will follow on its next revbump, or in one month from now, whatever is earlier. Leaving this bug open until then. Thank you for reporting this issue.
