Re: Getting Info to find extra pkgs not in normal path

[Andreas Politz]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
>
> > It's there but not in the 'dir' file :
> >
> > (info "stumpwm")
> >
> > dir files will be merged by emacs, so you can create
> > one for your local additions. Probably by copying the
> > systems one from /usr/share/info/dir or wherever, delete
> > all entries after '* Menu:' and put in your own.
> >
> > (info "(texinfo)Other Info Directories")
>
> That section shows several ways to do it, but I find at least two of
> them don't seem to work for me... probably something I'm doing wrong.
>
> Before posting here about it I had tried to extend INFOPATH in my
> ~/.bashrc file like this:
>
>   grep INFO ~/.bashrc
>   INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/src/stumpwm:/usr/local/gnus/texi
>
>   The Stand Alone info reader finds stumpwm but emacs does not

Eval (info "stumpwm") ,I am shure it'll work.
> Using the approach of adding my own dir file.  (inlined below) at
> /usr/local/info/dir, inside a freshly started emacs
>   
>   `C-h i m stumpwm'  fails
>
> My attempt appears to follow the example given:
>  `
>    * Test: (/home/bob/info/info-test).  Bob's own test file. '
>
> On the stumpwm line shown here the address ends in the top level
> directory. The info file is directly under there. I  also tried (not
> shown here) by putting the complete file name: 
>
>    (/usr/local/src/stumpwm/stumpwm.info)
>
> Do you see something wrong in both or either of my attempts (including
> the INFO path approach?
>
>   cat /usr/local/info/dir
>
>   Local info files (updates by user reader)
>
>   * Stumpwm: (/usr/local/src/stumpwm/stumpwm.info).  stump manual.

The dir file has to have a special header format. Just copy the systems one
into a directory in INFOPATH, erase everything afer '*Menu ' and put in
your own stuff.

-ap