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Re: Setting info pages (was Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text)

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From: Nathan Otto Siemers
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

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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)
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