emacs and using the .info lilypond documentation

2014-12-02 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear lilypond users, My apologies in advance if the answer to this is already out there and I just didn't find it. I would like to be able to access the lilypond docs in emacs using the .info files. So I downloaded the docs tarball and extracted it, and then made an entry in the init file to

Re: emacs and using the .info lilypond documentation

2014-12-02 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Kevin, After much experimentation in the past, this is how I solved the problem. First, as root user, I used dired to enter the /usr/lilypond/usr/share/info directory, where all the LilyPond info files were placed. Then I created symbolic links for all the info files to the directory

Re: emacs and using the .info lilypond documentation

2014-12-02 Thread Kevin Patrick Barry
Dear Hwaen Ch'uqi, Thank you for your reply. All I had to do was fill the dir file with the same contents as yours and everything works now. Perhaps someone should patch this file? Or show me how to do it. Kevin On 2 Dec 2014 22:42, Hwaen Ch'uqi hwaench...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Kevin,