Info directory

Info directory

[Philip Clark]

Hi Folks, 

Does anyone know how to set up multiple Info directory locations? I want
to keep all the system info files, but also include my own for other
packages I add in my home directory. 

I've tried:

(require 'info)
(setq Info-directory-list (append '("~/src/gnus/texi") Info-directory-list))

but then it just "loses" the system location. 

Any ideas would be very welcome.

-Phil

Re: Info directory

[Sean Richards]

Philip Clark <P.J.Clark@ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi Folks, 
>
> Does anyone know how to set up multiple Info directory locations? I want
> to keep all the system info files, but also include my own for other
> packages I add in my home directory. 
>
> I've tried:
>
> (require 'info)
> (setq Info-directory-list (append '("~/src/gnus/texi") Info-directory-list))
>
> but then it just "loses" the system location. 
>
> Any ideas would be very welcome.

How about
 
(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/src/gnus/texi")

or

(setq Info-default-directory-list 
      (cons "~/src/gnus/texi" Info-default-directory-list))

Sean

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Re: Info directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Clark <P.J.Clark@ed.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:41:17 +0100
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to set up multiple Info directory locations? I want
> to keep all the system info files, but also include my own for other
> packages I add in my home directory. 

The canonical way to do that is to set the environment variable
INFOPATH outside of Emacs, in the same shell from which you invoke
Emacs.  INFOPATH's value should be a list of Info directories in the
same format as the PATH variable on your system.

> I've tried:
> 
> (require 'info)
> (setq Info-directory-list (append '("~/src/gnus/texi") Info-directory-list))

Don't play with Info-directory-list, it's not intended to be settable
by the user.