From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting Info to find extra pkgs not in normal path
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:35:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228844211.827016@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2336.1228841670.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I thought using a line like this:
> (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list
> "/usr/local/src/stumpwm")
>
> In ~/.emacs, would find any info files there when I call Info within
> emacs. Apparently that no longer works or maybe never worked.
>
> There is an info file located there
> ls /usr/local/src/stumpwm/*.info
> /usr/local/src/stumpwm/stumpwm.info
>
> But C-h i m stumpwm knows nothing about it.
>
>
>
>
It's there but not in the 'dir' file :
(info "stumpwm")
dir files will be merged by emacs, so you can create
one for your local additions. Probably by copying the
systems one from /usr/share/info/dir or wherever, delete
all entries after '* Menu:' and put in your own.
(info "(texinfo)Other Info Directories")
-ap
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2008-12-09 17:35 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2008-12-09 21:00 ` Getting Info to find extra pkgs not in normal path Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.2373.1228856474.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-09 22:37 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-09 23:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-12-10 8:56 ` Harry Putnam
2008-12-12 9:15 ` StumpWM and Gnome Sébastien Vauban
2008-12-12 20:31 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-12 20:58 ` Jay Belanger
2008-12-12 21:18 ` Dmitri Minaev
2008-12-12 22:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-18 9:50 ` Sébastien Vauban
2008-12-18 13:30 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.3036.1229607504.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-19 12:55 ` Sébastien Vauban
2008-12-19 16:15 ` henry atting
2008-12-29 10:50 ` Sébastien Vauban
2008-12-29 12:08 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.3489.1230553403.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-29 14:17 ` Sébastien Vauban
2008-12-09 16:54 Getting Info to find extra pkgs not in normal path Harry Putnam
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