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Re: Info pages, BASH setup
- To: huotte at rpi dot edu
- Subject: Re: Info pages, BASH setup
- From: Mark Feber x3208 <mfeber at boole dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:00:40 -0700
- Cc: ccurley at wyoming dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>
> ccurley@wyoming.com wrote:
> >
> > I have the user tools only, not the compilers, etc. (for now :-). I
> notice
> > there are plenty of Info files in the info directory. This is nice, but
> > useless without a way to read them. I have NT Emacs, & could use that. Is
> > there a way to hook the Cygnus info files into the NT Emacs' Info tree?
> >
> Piece 'o cake. Just edit the 'dir' file that lives in the 'info'
> directory of your NT Emacs installation. Here's an example line that
> I added to mine to point to the bash info files:
> * Bash: (c:/gnu-win32/info/bash.info). The Bourne Again SHell.
> Just follow the pattern substituting in the paths to where things live on
> your file system and you should be all set.
> BTW, if you invoke Emacs's info mode with a prefix argument
> (e.g. using 'C-u C-h i'), Emacs will prompt you for the path/filename
> of the info file you want to browse.
> Hope this helps.
> <ED>
> -
>
A less intrusive way would be to just set the Info-directory-list variable in
your .emacs file to include the gnu-win32 info directory as well. E.g:
(setq Info-directory-list '("c:/gnu-win32/b18/info" c:/mumble/mumble/emacs-19.34/info"))
using the appropriate directories for your system.
mark
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