From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: managing multiple dir files Date: 13 Mar 2008 12:24:25 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205415508 15641 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 13:38:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:38:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 14:38:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZnde-0007BU-Ap for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZnd5-00040k-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:37:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.139.138 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156994 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:36:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52365 Archived-At: On 2008-03-13, Peter Dyballa 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