[h-e-w] Re: Reading info files

[Stephen Powell]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Rancier <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

    > How do I kick off info?

M-x info <return>
 or
C-h i


M-x apropos <return> info <return>

will tell you, among other things:

info                                              C-h i
  Command: Enter Info, the documentation browser.

[...]

    > I tried something like:

    > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.info$"   . info-mode)
    >   auto-mode-alist))

You need an append as you are adding to an existing list. eg from my ~/.emacs:

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append
       (list (cons "\\.[bB][tT][mM]$" 'bat-generic-mode) ; 4nt
                         (cons "\\.[aA][sS][pP]$" 'html-mode)
                         )
       auto-mode-alist))


M-x describe-variable <return> auto-mode-alist <return>
 or
C-h v auto-mode-alist <return>

will show you the value of the variable auto-mode-alist.

[...]

-- 
Stephen Powell
address@hidden