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Re: Info pages, BASH setup
At 11:32 PM 9/23/97 -0400, Ed Huott wrote:
>ccurley@wyoming.com wrote:
>>
>> I have the user tools only, not the compilers, etc. (for now :-). I notice
>> there are plenty of Info files in the info directory. This is nice, but
>> useless without a way to read them. I have NT Emacs, & could use that. Is
>> there a way to hook the Cygnus info files into the NT Emacs' Info tree?
>>
>
>Piece 'o cake. Just edit the 'dir' file that lives in the 'info'
>directory of your NT Emacs installation. Here's an example line that
>I added to mine to point to the bash info files:
>
> * Bash: (c:/gnu-win32/info/bash.info). The Bourne Again SHell.
>
>Just follow the pattern substituting in the paths to where things live on
>your file system and you should be all set.
>
>BTW, if you invoke Emacs's info mode with a prefix argument
>(e.g. using 'C-u C-h i'), Emacs will prompt you for the path/filename
>of the info file you want to browse.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
><ED>
Works like a charm. Thank you!
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