RE: Adding documents to the mule info tree

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com> writes:

    Dennis> GNU Emacs", which has nothing to say about the issue.  I
    Dennis> have read the material in the info section on adding
    Dennis> documents and menus several times now without getting
    Dennis> anywhere.

I assume that you mean that you can't find the !@#$% dir file.  It
should be /usr/info/dir or /usr/local/info/dir depending on your
installation.  If you have a really FSSTND-compliant system it might
end up being /usr/share/info/dir or /usr/local/share/info/dir.

Once you've found that file, move the new documentation into the same
directory, put the appropriate menu items in (follow the examples
you'll find there; don't worry too much about file naming---Info is
pretty smart about file name extensions like .info and .gz, but some
versions get confused, you need to fool around a bit in many cases),
and make sure the files are readable by the appropriate categories
(presumably world readable---maybe making info files private is a
violation of GPL?).

A bug that I've run into is that I have a legacy Info system from my
original installation of Slackware 2.0 in /usr/info, and a relatively
current installation in /usr/local/info.  So standalone Info and Mule
find different directories.  If you think you've installed it but it
just won't show up in Emacs, maybe that's your problem?

    Dennis>   I give up.  (Since I know that emacs is wonderful, I
    Dennis> must be stupid).  Somebody, please, just tell me what to
    Dennis> do, and we can all go on pretending that the editor is
    Dennis> really self-documenting.

Nope.  You need to read the man page too....  A correctly built emacs
has a man page that explicitly tells you where the info files that
came with that emacs are installed (in my case, "/usr/local/info").
Info's man page doesn't tell you that, at least not the 1990 edition.

Why this essential information doesn't make it into the info system is 
beyond me.

Steve

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                           Stephen John Turnbull
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Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences  http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305 JAPAN                 turnbull@example.com
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