From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up a custom info node. Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:49:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242852636 24601 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2009 20:50:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Tim Visher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 22:50:29 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 1M6sjh-0000uh-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 22:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sjg-00022S-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sjE-00020w-BL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sj9-0001rU-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48467 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6sj9-0001rI-Cq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:47002) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6sj9-0001qa-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-bw0-f209.google.com with SMTP id 5so692372bwz.42 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:49:26 -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=0CZRq47pEmc9fJPBSm1M2P3sKkb3zPGG7cf5RgxSvNI=; b=S2HMSzAQfIqrqVOHZB724YDvBNlcZXtKBigbupy3yQjo79Y1/olfgPUtQDjkpQRD/6 rwyCyMJTLqavsAkPfSkXuWcIvD3M6BbaYjYxTE39KghovQCRv/PAEkrkw6Hhnsdg7ZSp PFEYkgrhTgWAnM1M8KrLOI6OoZvVECWqtGCEU= 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=FV3EC4+fKVIA6y20S4E0mHn6r0iY4vTUlpsEuM3VoCbXcS0+Hl1cW2OXKD1iosVDGm IgnuAwl8yk21LGIgzIUFx04Df625H40WyG7uHUEsshIyaiDbUzR0mCSjaUBHOL1dafI/ w9pwv58344zJRfZRKuzynoPS7hD5JOJ+y1FKg= Original-Received: by 10.223.115.146 with SMTP id i18mr1323753faq.6.1242852566293; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:49:26 -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:64601 Archived-At: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tim Visher wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Lennart Borgman > wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Tim Visher wrot= e: >>> 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. =C2=A0I tried= to >>> do that per the instructions >>> [here](http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/texinfo/Other-Info-Dire= ctories.html) >>> and it's failed with a recursive load error. >>> >>> I would like to ignore anything but the dir file under >>> `.emacs.d/info/`. =C2=A0What 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 >> >> =C2=A0(setq Info-directory-list (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/info= ") >> =C2=A0Info-directory-list) > > My idea, here, was to simply make Emacs ignore anything that the > system may have set up. =C2=A0I 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`. =C2=A0That's why I'm not adding to the list. =C2=A0I 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. =C2=A0This 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. If you are folloing the instructions that comes with Emacs for this and it does not work, then please submit a bug report. However to do that it would at the moment be best to try the pretest for Emacs 23 and see if things still fails there (since no work will be done any more on earlier versions.)