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[rob.dickens@lafros.com: corrected .emacs snippet for merging your own Info files]

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Subject: bug#6859: closed (Re: bug#6859: [rob.dickens <at> lafros.com:
 corrected .emacs snippet for merging your own Info files])
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:14:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#6859: [rob.dickens <at> lafros.com: corrected .emacs snippet for merging your own Info files]

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 6859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 6859-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6859: [rob.dickens <at> lafros.com: corrected .emacs snippet for
	merging your own Info files]
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:14:41 -0400

I am closing this because there does not seem to be an Emacs bug.

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From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: bug-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [rob.dickens <at> lafros.com: corrected .emacs snippet for merging your
	own Info files]
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:23:27 GMT

I received this report on bug-texinfo.  Is this correct?  If so, it
seems sad that a recommendation that has been around forever (the
"currently" in Rob's msg) no longer works, but if it has to be, it has
to be.  Please advise ...

Thanks,
Karl


Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:30:54 +0100
From: Rob Dickens <rob.dickens <at> lafros.com>
To: bug-texinfo <at> gnu.org
Subject: corrected .emacs snippet for merging your own Info files

Dear maintainer,

I found that what's suggested in the following section of the Texinfo manual doesn't work:

21.2.3 Info Files in Other Directories

* currently:

(require 'info)
(setq Info-directory-list
      (cons (expand-file-name "/home/bob/info")
            Info-directory-list))

* should be:

(add-hook 'Info-mode-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list
			  (expand-file-name "~/info"))))

Best regards,

Rob
http://lafros.com

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