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Article #537Re: Setting info pages (was Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text)
From: Nathan Otto Siemers
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:18
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:18
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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 >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. Paul> ah. 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). 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. 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. Paul> I suggest that you 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. I basically do this too, with links to the original info files already on the system in that directory. Nathan Siemers -- -- / | / /__| / /---/ /__| / | / nathan@chemres.tn.cornell.edu
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!udel!rochester!cornell!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!piccolo.cit.cornell.edu!piccolo.cit.cornell.edu!ns14 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 Message-ID: <NS14.92Dec24131802@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@piccolo.cit.cornell.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: crux3.cit.cornell.edu Organization: Department of Chemistry, Cornell Univ. References: <BGARWOOD.92Dec7143058@sngldsh.cv.nrao.edu> <AKIY.92Dec8163731@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp> <SSAMMY.92Dec9100351@hunter-04.cs.strath.ac.uk> <BCR.92Dec13171539@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> <SSAMMY.92Dec21113349@fleming-03.cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: 24 Dec 92 13:18:01 Lines: 44