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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info files
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:48:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A4A4E769-2D9F-4DED-A62F-CE7FA4986162@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ei7r0k$tda$2@wildfire.prairienet.org>


Am 31.10.2006 um 16:47 schrieb Dan Bensen:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> So you need to install the GNU texinfo package: http://www.gnu.org/ 
>> software/texinfo/.
> Oh.  I thought Emacs had an info reader built into it.  Thanks.

The info files reader is built-in, but not the software to set up the  
info files system, particularly the automatic creator of entries in  
the dir files. Again, GNU Emacs has also the ability to interpret the  
dir files ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

"Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind."
D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30  4:17 info files Dan Bensen
2006-10-30  5:35 ` Sam Peterson
2006-10-31  4:34   ` Dan Bensen
2006-10-31 10:22     ` Peter Dyballa
2006-10-31 14:41     ` rthorpe
2006-10-31 15:44       ` Dan Bensen
2006-10-31 17:58         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-01  0:33           ` Dan Bensen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.454.1162290165.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-31 15:47       ` Dan Bensen
2006-10-31 16:48         ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2006-10-30 12:44 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.430.1162212279.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-19 22:25   ` David Combs
2006-11-20  4:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.864.1163996313.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-20 16:59       ` Robert Thorpe

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