Re: info for org not found in emacs

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Charles <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:

> ... 
> As I described earlier my earlier attempt, i.e. added INFOPATH=/home/Charlie/elisp/org-mode/doc/ to
> my bash_profile loaded the latest org manual into the general info tree but so was org manual
> version 7.9.1; however, when I was in emacs (the bash_profile was still modified) and called info,
> only the latest org manual was shown; none of the rest of the info tree was shown and I could not
> access it.
> 

The doc for Info-default-directory-list says:

,----
| Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
| comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
| This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
| for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless
| the environment variable INFOPATH is set.
`----

IIUC, this implies that INFOPATH has to encompass *all* the places where
info files should be searched for. In my case, I have the following in
my .profile:

- --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# standard places
INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/local/share/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info
...
# org info dir
INFOPATH=/home/nick/src/emacs/org/org-mode/doc:$INFOPATH
export INFOPATH
- --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Nick