From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: local info files and top info directory
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:03:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ri29e-0005FX-Hy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3b16pms.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:34:35 +0800)
> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:34:35 +0800
>
> > In your ~/.emacs.d/info directory, there should be a file named `dir'
> > or `DIR'. Its contents, and only its contents, are added to the main
> > Info directory when Emacs composes it. Emacs does not look at the
> > info files themselves, just in the DIR files it finds in every
> > directory that is in Info-default-directory-list.
>
> Nope, there's nothing in there but the symlinked info files. Info is
> definitely able to find them, though, so it doesn't seem like this is
> the main problem.
Yes, it _is_ the main problem: since there was no DIR file there,
Emacs didn't have any place to collect the top-level menu entries
from, for those files whose symlinks you had in ~/.emacs.d/info.
Creating that DIR file solved the issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 3:58 local info files and top info directory Eric Abrahamsen
2012-01-03 6:17 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-01-03 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 10:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-01-03 10:40 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-03 10:47 ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-03 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-03 16:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-01-03 10:29 ` Peter Dyballa
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