Re: adding to the info tree as a non-sysadmin

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From: Mike Williams
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 00:21

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+-- dickie@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Garth Dickie) writes:
| 
| I would like to be able to read info files for packages that have not
| been installed by the administrators.  I don't have rights to the
| directory node.  Can I create a (modified) private directory node, and
| point the info reader to this?

  (1) Create your own info directory (eg. ~/Emacs/Info), and copy the info
      directory file into it.  
        +---
        | $ mkdir ~/Emacs/Info
        | $ cd ~/Emacs/Info
        | $ cp /usr/local/emacs/info/dir .

  (2) Tell info where to find it.
        +--- in your .emacs
        | (setq Info-directory (expand-file-name "~/Emacs/Info"))

  (3) Make a symbolic link to the system info directory
      	+---
      	| $ ln -s /usr/local/emacs/info ~/Emacs/Info/System

  (4) Edit the dir file, adding "System/" to the front of all info file
      pathnames (relative to Info-directory).
      	+--- eg.
      	| Info: (info).	Documentation browsing system.
      	|            becomes
      	| Info: (System/info).	Documentation browsing system.

  (5) Install any new info files in your ~/Emacs/Info directory, and alter
      your ~/Emacs/Info/dir file to suit.

  (6) Have a [______]  (insert beverage of your own choice).

--
      /-------------------- byrd@comp.vuw.ac.nz --------------------\ 
      | Mike Williams, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa. |
      \-------- Yesterday, I ... no, wait, that wasn't me. ---------/

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