Re: Setting up a custom info node.

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you are folloing the instructions that comes with Emacs for this
and it does not work, then please submit a bug report. However to do
that it would at the moment be best to try the pretest for Emacs 23
and see if things still fails there (since no work will be done any
more on earlier versions.)