From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Borked Pseudo Mailed Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: adding a new info file to info index page Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:21:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: References: <0a95f4f6-1d74-408b-8c18-c4f2c8baa13e@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211914726 14250 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2008 18:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:58:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 20:59:26 2008 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 1K14OK-0005sM-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:59:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K14NZ-0002r8-Bx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 14:58:37 -0400 Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at . Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news.wiretrip.org!news.bananasplit.info!mail2news.mixmin.net X-Abuse-Contact: abuse@mixmin.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158944 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:58:16 -0400 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:54321 Archived-At: You can do a little better than manually adding info files if you are running a bash shell- for FI in `ls /usr/info/*.info` ; do install-info -info-dir /usr/info /usr/info/$FI ; done On Mon, 26 May 2008 06:21:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "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. >