From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up a custom info node. Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242852008 22088 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2009 20:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 22:40:01 2009 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 1M6sa0-0004MA-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 22:40:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44573 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sZz-0001ba-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sZV-0001VW-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sZU-0001V7-Hg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40389 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sZU-0001V1-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.153]:59677) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6sZU-0000Cs-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so396629ywm.66 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:39:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bbJYgKYOVmKEcLC1Z99a0xp+aiPkzWUyoJONTha5rj0=; b=KFUmwZWcFngwpIogmHpMiVxnKHCOOaPW9EHWZpdWk7AGdhUKnYnuz1fA05KOAs5hKV hAod2pQ75XVyIb+a7e73yZgs+hIOoVhZzvLmo9zYA0l1QinPZGtblLpS3OR1/CGl9h3w GiWnwV7MoQSI81Yuq9pxUnSC4qvRZtpnK7+yY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D4OyW/l1WiF314+1780zdXHRD9t8rDTBhEZAWewj4v48LGDR/RoiT26PGUn/MsYDLW nWLTHo5ASQ62DtwqEHzSLPtXBMWauSIg0QjSwkTb/Xzy4obRy5qge9svM3YFjpI3TCCx HKQ+3Tf4XoClqwOVklNmPbFThok3KaZXKEK4g= Original-Received: by 10.100.109.13 with SMTP id h13mr3535783anc.16.1242851967342; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:39:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:64600 Archived-At: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Tim Visher wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I'd like to set up a custom info node under my .emacs.d directory for >> maintaining all of the info files that I'm interested in. I tried to >> do that per the instructions >> [here](http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/texinfo/Other-Info-Directories.html) >> and it's failed with a recursive load error. >> >> I would like to ignore anything but the dir file under >> `.emacs.d/info/`. What I did was the following: >> >> `(setq Info-directory-list (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/info") ()))` > > Hi Tim, I have never done this, but shouldn't you add the dir to the > ones already in the list? Like > > (setq Info-directory-list (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/info") > Info-directory-list) My idea, here, was to simply make Emacs ignore anything that the system may have set up. I want to maintain my own Info directory under source control and have it be the only thing I see when I do `C-h i`. That's why I'm not adding to the list. I discovered [here](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPath) that if INFOPATH is set on the system, any direct customization you do will be ignored anyway. This may be a problem I'll run into in the future (I'm not sure I quite grok that page) but right now I couldn't even get things to load because of the recursive load error. Thanks for the thoughts though. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail