On 2026-02-24 15:38:48 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It is okay to make the Info reader more robust in these situations, > but by and large, the assumption is and always has been that the > directory where Info files are stored should have nothing except Info > files (including DIR and any image files used by the manuals). If any > other files are present there, IMNSHO it's a cockpit mistake of sorts, > and the solution should be to remove those non-Info files. They have > no reason to be there.
I agree about directories from the info path, but *not* for directories outside of the info path. The latter occurs when following a cross-reference from an info file that was given on the command line, e.g. in a source tree, typically during the development and testing of software. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
