2013-10-03 10:27 M: > I tried to load the recent documentation with a link to the "doc" directory > in my org-mode 8.2 (expanded contents from git repository) in my .emacs. > > (add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list > (expand-file-name "~/mypath/org-mode/org_current/doc")) > > But this does have no effect. With C-h i, I get displayed a an outdated > org-manual.
The following worked for me, however in a different environment (Gentoo Linux with org-mode 8.2 installed via the package manager). My Org 8.2 info file ended up in /usr/share/info/org, whereas the one packaged by Emacs is in /usr/share/info/emacs-24. I couldn't get the directory settings in Emacs right, but the following worked: I created my own info directory and prepended it to the INFOPATH environment variable: export INFOPATH="$HOME/.emacs.d/info:$INFOPATH" In this directory, I created a symlink to the Org 8.2 info: $ ls -l ~/.emacs.d/info total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 clange clange 19 Sep 14 15:20 org -> /usr/share/info/org HTH, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham http://cs.bham.ac.uk/~langec/, Skype duke4701 → Mathematics in Computer Science Special Issue on “Enabling Domain Experts to use Formalised Reasoning”; submission until 31 October. http://cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/formare/pubs/mcs-doform/