Re: Extending Info-directory-list. There's got to be a better way.

[Oliver Scholz]

Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid> writes:

> I recently added the following to my .emacs, after much (too much)
> searching of the docs:
>
> (eval-after-load "info"
>   '(progn (info-initialize)
>         (push "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/emacs-21.1/info/" 
> Info-directory-list)))
>
> This was the only way I found of appending to the front of
> Info-directory-list which works regardless of whether or not Info has
> already been loaded (for example, by desktop).
>
> Surely there's got to be a better way?  One that doesn't involve arcane
> constructions like eval-after-load and calling functions like
> info-initialise which feel like they ought to be internal private
> functions rather than public functions.
[...]

I think, if you use `Info-default-directory-list' rather than
`Info-directory-list', you can simply `push' to it. I think it is
preloaded.

    Oliver
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