From: ccurley AT wyoming DOT com (Charles Curley) Subject: Re: Info pages, BASH setup 24 Sep 1997 06:39:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970924063102.00936890.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailhost.wyoming.com> References: <199709240332 DOT XAA57956 AT alumni DOT rpi DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ed Huott Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 11:32 PM 9/23/97 -0400, Ed Huott wrote: >ccurley AT wyoming DOT 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. > > Works like a charm. Thank you! -- C^2 Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://web.idirect.com/~ccurley - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".