From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard G Riley Subject: Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:35:29 +0100 Message-ID: <86sl3jtmim.fsf@home.net> References: <874pfz4slg.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87640f8nd4.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <874pfz5qlp.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <41c818190711060716p795fb91v9a3b899624a8a21d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpQSn-0001Bd-BS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:35:37 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpQSk-0001BR-Tm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:35:36 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpQSk-0001BO-NX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:35:34 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpQSk-0002qe-Jt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:35:34 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c38so266883ana for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:35:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <41c818190711060716p795fb91v9a3b899624a8a21d@mail.gmail.com> (William Henney's message of "Tue\, 6 Nov 2007 09\:16\:21 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: William Henney Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "William Henney" writes: > On 11/6/07, Bastien wrote: >> Richard G Riley writes: >> > Is it just me or are emacs info pages really a bit of a dog to search >> > through? >> >> It's not just you. >> >> Many people don't like to search through the Info pages and whether this >> interface is the best one for Emacs documentation is always a hot topic >> on the emacs-devel mailing list. >> >> But `i' (M-x Info-index) will really make your life easier. >> >> Personnally I do like Info pages and Info-mode very much. In addition >> to Info-index, I'm mostly using these: >> >> `l' Info-history-back >> `L' Info-history >> `]' Info-forward-node >> >> Once you get used to these few commands, it's really quick to find and >> fetch info relevant information. >> > > I use "l" a lot, but I didn't know about "L" - thanks! > > The commands I use most are "spacebar", which just chugs through an > entire manual, and "s", which does a regexp search. > > I do like info pages when I can actually get the right ones to load. > The big problem I have with info is in setting it up so that it finds > the right files. For instance, I have totally failed to work out how I > can tell it where my org info files are, with the result that it > always shows me the old version that comes with my emacs (currently > 4.67). I have tried setting Info-default-directory-list and > Info-directory-list, but all to no avail. Has anyone else had this > problem? Yes. On linux i ran (sudo) make install-info and then insured /usr/local/info was on my info-directory-list I also deleted any old org files lying around. I dont know, info files and their set up is just damn confusing IMO, especially with plenty of makefiles updating the wrong dir file. - its always worth checking which define they use for their destination infopath. > > Cheers > > Will > >> HTH,