From: mfeber AT boole DOT com (Mark Feber x3208) Subject: Re: Info pages, BASH setup 24 Sep 1997 09:28:02 -0700 Message-ID: <199709241600.JAA00371.cygnus.gnu-win32@ws117.boole.com> References: <8825651C DOT 0053DB8D DOT 00 AT lng004 DOT boole DOT com> To: huotte AT rpi DOT edu Cc: ccurley AT wyoming DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > > ccurley AT wyoming DOT 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. > > - > 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".