Re: How to get an item into info menu?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

bill <please_post@nomail.edu> writes:

> I have the info files for "Introduction to Programming in Emacs
> Lisp" but no matter where I put those files, the corresponding menu
> item (* Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr).) never shows on the top menu
> when I do C-h i in Emacs.  In every attempt I have placed the
> file(s) in a directory mentioned in Info-default-directory-list.
> I have tried both the single info file emacs-lisp-intro.info.gz
> (from gnu.org) as well as the separate eintr*.gz files generated
> by makeinfo and gzip from the contents of emacs-lisp-intro-texi.tar
> (also from gnu.org).

You can use the prefix argument to be able to specify the info file to
use:
    
    C-u C-h i

You'd have to edit the DIR file used by info. There's an: install-info
command to do that.

 
> Where's the documentation on how to do this?  I've looked everywhere.


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