From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making it possible to use INFOPATH with Emacs info files
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:02:31 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805021301560.10349@canta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6wr6cldvyt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
>> for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless
>> the environment variable INFOPATH is set.
>>
>> which means that if I set INFOPATH, then I don't get access to Emacs's own
>> info files (under /usr/share/info/emacs-22) unless I manually add this path
>> to Info-directory-list.
>
> The doc of Info-directory-list says that if INFOPATH ends in a colon,
> INFOPATH is combined with Info-default-directory-list. Works for me.
Joy, I am living in the future. Thanks very much.
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2008-05-01 20:26 Making it possible to use INFOPATH with Emacs info files Reuben Thomas
2008-05-02 7:08 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-02 12:02 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
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