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Re: Setting up a custom info node.


From: Tim Visher
Subject: Re: Setting up a custom info node.
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:27 -0400

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to set up a custom info node under my .emacs.d directory for
>> maintaining all of the info files that I'm interested in.  I tried to
>> do that per the instructions
>> [here](http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/texinfo/Other-Info-Directories.html)
>> and it's failed with a recursive load error.
>>
>> I would like to ignore anything but the dir file under
>> `.emacs.d/info/`.  What I did was the following:
>>
>> `(setq Info-directory-list (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/info") ()))`
>
> Hi Tim, I have never done this, but shouldn't you add the dir to the
> ones already in the list? Like
>
>  (setq Info-directory-list (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/info")
>  Info-directory-list)

My idea, here, was to simply make Emacs ignore anything that the
system may have set up.  I want to maintain my own Info directory
under source control and have it be the only thing I see when I do
`C-h i`.  That's why I'm not adding to the list.  I discovered
[here](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPath) that if INFOPATH is
set on the system, any direct customization you do will be ignored
anyway.  This may be a problem I'll run into in the future (I'm not
sure I quite grok that page) but right now I couldn't even get things
to load because of the recursive load error.

Thanks for the thoughts though.

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