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- From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
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- Subject: Setting info pages (was Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:33:49 GMT
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- In-reply-to: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch's message of 13 Dec 92 16:15:39 GMT
-
- >Regarding Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text; bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) adds:
-
- > Great! Much better than all those spaces.
-
- > I'm sort of new to this game... How do I actually get emacs to list the
- > supercite help file when I type "^hi" so I can figure out how to clean-up
- > the rest of the citation.
-
- ah.
-
- I've been watching the newsgroup to see if anyone else has an more elegant
- answer, but apparently not (maybe its the cos of the holiday season).
-
- Anyway, in my site, the admin has seen fit not to bother
- to install the info pages at all, so I have installed them myself.
-
- The important thing to know is that there is a directory pointed to by the
- variable `Info-directory' which contains the info pages and a special file
- called "dir".
- "dir" is what you se when you type M-x info RET.
-
- I suggest that you
-
- 1)create a directory ~/lib/emacsinfo,
- 2)set `Info-directory' to point to it,
- 3)copy dir from the default dir into the `Info-directory'
- 4)edit dir to look at the default directory for all the info
- pages execept for the supercite one.
-
- A sample dir is cited below:
-
- > -*- Text -*-
- > This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the
- > Info hierarchy. The first time you invoke Info you start off
- > looking at that node, which is (dir)Top.
- >
- > File: dir Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree
- > This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
- > Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h"
- > gives a primer for first-timers, "mTexinfo<Return>" visits Texinfo topic,
- > etc.
- > --- PLEASE ADD DOCUMENTATION TO THIS TREE. (See INFO topic first.) ---
- >
- > * Menu: The list of major topics begins on the next line.
- >
- > * Gnus: (gnus). The Emacs interface to News.
- > * Supercite:(sc.info). News citation program for use with Gnus.
-
-
- Examine the Supercite entry.
- The part in the brackets is the filename stem of the file(s) found
- in the `Info-directory'.
-
- In your situation this would not need to be substantially different.
- However, the Gnus entry would be installed in the system default
- directory and you would need to alter the bit in the brackets to
-
- > * Gnus: (/etc/info/gnus). The Emacs interface to News.
-
- or whatever.
-
-
- This method is crummy because you need to keep regular checks on
- what the sysop adds to the original dir file.
-
- I'd be surprised if there isn't an easier way than this: because I have
- had to install the info pages in my system I don't know any other way.
-
- If you have problems on any of the steps above, mail me.
-
- Paul
-
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