[h-e-w] Re: info path - I can add to it, but not use it

[Michael R. Wolf]

Galen Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> You probably haven't made an entry in your dir file.  This file
> is located in the emacs-21.1/info directory.  Just add the 
> following line to it and then save the dir file.
> 
> * BBDB: (bbdb.info).  The Insidious Big Brother database.
> 
> Then, C-h i will display the BBDB for you.  You will have to kill
> any running instance of info.

Henrik Enberg <address@hidden> writes:

> You will also need a entry in the dir file if you want to see when you
> do C-h i.  Try something like this.
> 
> * BBDB: (bbdb).             The Insidious Big Brother Database.

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Thanks to Henrik and Galen.

Magic.  It worked!!  Is there a preference for "(bbdb)" or
"(bbdb.info)"?  I used the later.

How could I have figured that out myself?  I'd scoured the info node
for Info a whole bunch.

Can someone fold the "update the info/dir" directions into the INSTALL
file for BBDB?

Why does the process file manipulation?  It seems to me that I have to
remember to remember my updates to the emacs-21.1/info/dir file when I
get a new version of emacs.  That doesn't seem like a reasonable
maintenance procedure.  Is there a way to do it all in ~/.emacs, or at
least without modifying the distribution files?

> You might not have the info files created though.  Info reads
> info files, not texinfo files.  
[snip]
> Try running make in this directory.

Fortunately for me, they were already there because I don't have a
texi2dvi.exe on this WinDOS machine.  Depencencies, dependencies...

Thanks again.....

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
    All mammals learn by playing!