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Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 21:05:01 +0300

> From: Gilaras Drakeson <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:11:24 -0400
> 
> 
> >> --8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<---
> >> ;; info files
> >> (list "\.info$"
> >>       (cond
> >>        ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)
> >>    "for %i in ( * ) do install-info \"%i\" \"%~pi\\dir\"")
> >>        (t ; bash
> >>    "for i in  * ; do p=`dirname \"$i\"`;install-info $i $p/dir\"; done"))
> >> )
> >> --8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<---
> 
> > Also, I'm not sure I understand what is this command trying to do.  It
> > seems to try to install Info files in the subdirectory named literally
> > `dir' of the directory where those Info files live?
> 
> "dir" is a plain text file into which install-info adds entries.

But why in the same directory as the original files?  That's not how
install-info is normally used.




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