From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding a new info file to info index page
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:19:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5hh9uth.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uprr9g37s.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 26 May 2008 06:21:27 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "xahlee@gmail.com" <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:35:36 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> about 10 years ago, in gnu emacs, if i added a new info file, i have
>> to mod the index file, so it shows up in the index. I recall in xemacs
>> its automatic or something like that.
>>
>> Do i still have to do that today?
>
> No. The Texinfo package comes with a program called install-info that
> will do what you want: update the DIR file with the menu items for a
> particular Info manual.
>
>
Install-info add to the dir file in a particular directory; you also
need a dir file in each directory in Info-additional-directory-list.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-25 19:35 adding a new info file to info index page xahlee
2008-05-26 2:26 ` weber
2008-05-26 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-05 1:45 ` Joseph Brenner
2008-05-26 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-26 11:19 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.12232.1211772126.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-26 5:21 ` Borked Pseudo Mailed
2008-05-26 21:00 ` diary: repeat scheduling problem Daniel
2008-05-26 23:18 ` weber
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