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From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: managing multiple dir files
Date: 13 Mar 2008 12:24:25 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfti77j.bc8.tyler.smith@blackbart.sedgenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8826.1205398841.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On 2008-03-13, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> Am 12.03.2008 um 17:42 schrieb Tyler Smith:
>
>> There's a fair bit of overlap in the last three. Any tips on how to
>> manage a combination of hand-rolled and debian-installed info files
>> would be most appreciated.
>
> The environment variable INFOPATH tells GNU Emacs where to look for  
> info files.
>
> If you want, you can edit the dir files and remove entries. The  
> utility install-info is used to maintain the dir file.
>

Thanks Peter!

INFOPATH doesn't seem to be defined on my system though. And I don't
understand why Debian would install the info file for, for example,
sbcl, in both /usr/local/info/dir and /usr/share/info/dir. I can fix
that myself, of course, but is there something I can do so that I
won't have to manually tweak the dir files everytime I install
documentation from the repositories?

Cheers,

Tyler


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-13 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12 16:42 managing multiple dir files Tyler Smith
2008-03-13  9:00 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.8826.1205398841.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-13 12:24   ` Tyler Smith [this message]
2008-03-13 14:52     ` Peter Dyballa
2008-03-13 17:33       ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8844.1205419949.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-15 11:37       ` Tyler Smith

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