From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Setting info pages (was Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text)
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:33:49 GMT
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Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch's message of 13 Dec 92 16:15:39 GMT

>Regarding Re: Followup: changing the string indicating included text; bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) adds:

 > Great!  Much better than all those spaces. 

 > I'm sort of new to this game...  How do I actually get emacs to list the
 > supercite help file when I type "^hi" so I can figure out how to clean-up
 > the rest of the citation.

  ah.
 
 I've been watching the newsgroup to see if anyone else has an more elegant
 answer, but apparently not (maybe its the cos of the holiday season).

 Anyway, in my site, the admin has seen fit not to bother
 to install the info pages at all, so I have installed them myself.
 
 The important thing to know is that there is a directory pointed to by the
 variable `Info-directory' which contains the info pages and a special file
 called "dir".
 "dir" is what you se when you type M-x info RET.

 I suggest that you 

	1)create a directory ~/lib/emacsinfo, 
	2)set `Info-directory' to point to it, 
	3)copy dir from the default dir into the `Info-directory'
	4)edit dir to look at the default directory for all the info
          pages execept for the supercite one.

 A sample dir is cited below:

 >  -*- Text -*-
 > This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the
 > Info hierarchy.  The first time you invoke Info you start off
 > looking at that node, which is (dir)Top.
 > 
 > File: dir	Node: Top	This is the top of the INFO tree
 >   This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics. 
 >   Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h" 
 >   gives a primer for first-timers, "mTexinfo<Return>" visits Texinfo topic,
 >   etc.
 >   --- PLEASE ADD DOCUMENTATION TO THIS TREE. (See INFO topic first.) ---
 >
 > * Menu: The list of major topics begins on the next line.
 >
 > * Gnus: (gnus). The Emacs interface to News.
 > * Supercite:(sc.info). News citation program for use with Gnus.


 Examine the Supercite entry.
 The part in the brackets is the filename stem of the file(s) found
 in the `Info-directory'.

 In your situation this would not need to be substantially different.
 However, the Gnus entry would be installed in the system default
 directory and you would need to alter the bit in the brackets to
 
 > * Gnus: (/etc/info/gnus). The Emacs interface to News.

 or whatever.


 This method is crummy because you need to keep regular checks on 
 what the sysop adds to the original dir file.
 
 I'd be surprised if there isn't an easier way than this: because I have 
 had to install the info pages in my system I don't know any other way.

 If you have problems on any of the steps above, mail me.

 Paul
 
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