Re: adding a new info file to info index page

[Borked Pseudo Mailed <nobody@pseudo.borked.net>]

You can do a little better than manually adding info files if you 
are running a bash shell-

for FI in `ls /usr/info/*.info` ; do install-info -info-dir /usr/info
/usr/info/$FI  ; done

On Mon, 26 May 2008 06:21:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
wrote:

>> From: "xahlee@gmail.com" <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:35:36 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>> about 10 years ago, in gnu emacs, if i added a new info file, i have
>> to mod the index file, so it shows up in the index. I recall in xemacs
>> its automatic or something like that.
>> 
>> Do i still have to do that today?
>
>No.  The Texinfo package comes with a program called install-info that
>will do what you want: update the DIR file with the menu items for a
>particular Info manual.
>