On Fri, Aug 30 2013, [email protected] wrote: > Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> writes: >> (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/code/auctex/doc") > > TL;DR > Use: > (require 'info) ; unless already require'd earlier > (add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list "~/code/auctex/doc")
I'd suggest using Customize. > Longer version > From what I understand (and I spent a lot of time trying to grasp these > things at some point), what you suggest is ok if Info-directory-list is > already initialized (exists and is non-nil), which is usually not the > case while reading .emacs. That's why Customize exists. (Well, one of the reasons, at least.) > At best it will produce an error (if info was > not yet loaded), or it will produce no error but the variable won't get > filled properly with system-wide info dirs (only those explicitly added > with a line like above). That's at least what I see with a recent emacs. > Also, it is a defvar, not a defcustom, Actually, Info-additional-directory-list is a defcustom. At least in the Emacs version I'm running (24.3.50.1). -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
