[Nix-dev] Re: Providing Info `dir' files

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> Log:
>> * Quick hack to make the `info' command work properly by generating
>>   a "dir" file on the fly in a wrapper script.
> 
> Nice hack!  However, it won't work when browsing Info files from Emacs,
> pinfo, etc.
> 
> What would you think of using a "user environment build hook" to create
> `dir', as was discussed in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/981?

Yes, that would be the good solution as opposed to the quick hack ;-)

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