From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting Info to find extra pkgs not in normal path Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:00:51 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <86vdttkqrg.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <1228844211.827016@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228856552 32389 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2008 21:02:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 22:03:35 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 1LA9js-0003Lj-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:03:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LA9ih-0001Kz-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:02:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA9hg-00012N-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LA9hd-000118-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49583 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LA9hd-000112-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46388 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LA9hc-0005Tb-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LA9hW-00072x-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:01:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dqmQ5hSp6PK2jJ1z2FfXffPj3Rw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60515 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > > 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") That section shows several ways to do it, but I find at least two of them don't seem to work for me... probably something I'm doing wrong. Before posting here about it I had tried to extend INFOPATH in my ~/.bashrc file like this: grep INFO ~/.bashrc INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/src/stumpwm:/usr/local/gnus/texi The Stand Alone info reader finds stumpwm but emacs does not Using the approach of adding my own dir file. (inlined below) at /usr/local/info/dir, inside a freshly started emacs `C-h i m stumpwm' fails My attempt appears to follow the example given: ` * Test: (/home/bob/info/info-test). Bob's own test file. ' On the stumpwm line shown here the address ends in the top level directory. The info file is directly under there. I also tried (not shown here) by putting the complete file name: (/usr/local/src/stumpwm/stumpwm.info) Do you see something wrong in both or either of my attempts (including the INFO path approach? cat /usr/local/info/dir Local info files (updates by user reader) * Stumpwm: (/usr/local/src/stumpwm/stumpwm.info). stump manual.