On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > I also think (but I did not read the code), that restricting what is > > > in the dir also restricts the scope of the Info commands that apply > > > on all the manuals. > > > > It does? How? I'm probably missing something. > > My wild guess is that for the rare Info commands that apply to all the > known manuals, such as ‘M-x index-apropos’, the concatenated dirs are > used to read all the manuals. I may be wrong, the directories in > INFOPATH may be scanned instead.
Just from looking at the 'apropos_in_all_indices' function, it appears to use the merged dir file. This likely does not produce good results with the current standalone Info implementation if there are two manuals with the same name in two different dir files; this could be changed in the future, however.
