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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.saynotospam.au>
Subject: Re: Extending Info-directory-list.  There's got to be a better way.
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:31:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfxvz2rj.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fjuc6b.r5.ln@acm.acm

Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid> writes:
>
> (eval-after-load "info"
>   '(progn (info-initialize)
>         (push "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/emacs-21.1/info/" Info-directory-list)))
>
> Surely there's got to be a better way?

I use the little function below.  Still not a thing of beauty, but
avoids forcibly running info-initialize.


(defun my-info-directory (dir)
  "Setup an extra info directory.
This is added to `Info-directory-list' if info has been initialized, or
to `Info-default-directory-list' if not.

`Info-additional-directory-list' is not used, since that comes after
`Info-directory-list' in the searching, and extras should come before the
standard locations."

  (if (not (file-exists-p dir))
      (message "Skipping %s" dir))
  (add-to-list (if (boundp 'Info-directory-list)
                   'Info-directory-list
                 'Info-default-directory-list)
               dir))

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-03 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-01 20:59 Extending Info-directory-list. There's got to be a better way Alan Mackenzie
2003-04-01 22:59 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-02  4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-04-03 21:31 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2003-04-04 18:18 ` David Masterson

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