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- From: ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
- Subject: Re: Setting info pages (was Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text)
- In-Reply-To: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk's message of 21 Dec 92 11:33:49 GMT
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:18:01
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- >>>>> On 21 Dec 92 11:33:49 GMT, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy
- Paul> 4th Year iE/CES) said: Nntp-Posting-Host:
- Paul> fleming-03.cs.strath.ac.uk
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- >Regarding Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text;
- >bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) adds:
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- > Great! Much better than all those spaces.
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- > 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.
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- Paul> ah.
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- Paul> I've been watching the newsgroup to see if anyone else has an
- Paul> more elegant answer, but apparently not (maybe its the cos of
- Paul> the holiday season).
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- Paul> Anyway, in my site, the admin has seen fit not to bother to
- Paul> install the info pages at all, so I have installed them myself.
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- Paul> The important thing to know is that there is a directory
- Paul> pointed to by the variable `Info-directory' which contains the
- Paul> info pages and a special file called "dir". "dir" is what you
- Paul> se when you type M-x info RET.
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- Paul> I suggest that you
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- Paul> 1)create a directory ~/lib/emacsinfo, 2)set `Info-directory' to
- Paul> point to it, 3)copy dir from the default dir into the
- Paul> `Info-directory' 4)edit dir to look at the default directory
- Paul> for all the info pages execept for the supercite one.
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- I basically do this too, with links to the original info files
- already on the system in that directory.
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- Nathan Siemers
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