bug#18627: 24.3; M-x info does not give sycalls page

bug#18627: 24.3; M-x info does not give sycalls page

[Aurélien DESBRIÈRES]

Hi,

Trying to read some info page in emacs ...

I have tried M-x info RET syscalls RET and M-x info-apropos RET syscalls
RET but both does not give back the info page of syscalls.

Is there another way to read info page (that are present and readable
from Xterm)?

Thanks to Emacs team for Emacs!

--aurelien



In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2014-09-07 on babin, modified by Debian
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)

Configured using:
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 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=no'
 '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' 'build_alias=i586-linux-gnu'
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
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  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  erc-track-mode: t
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DEL DEL DEL DEL r e p o r t TAB RET

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Source file `/home/nexus-6/.emacs.d/elpa/docbook-0.1/docbook-pkg.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Unable to load color "brightblue"
Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 3019.
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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
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bug#18627: 24.3; M-x info does not give sycalls page

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: aurelien@hackers.camp (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES)
> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:50:35 +0200
> 
> Trying to read some info page in emacs ...
> 
> I have tried M-x info RET syscalls RET and M-x info-apropos RET syscalls
> RET but both does not give back the info page of syscalls.
> 
> Is there another way to read info page (that are present and readable
> from Xterm)?

"M-x info RET" should display a page with a large menu, look for
syscalls there, or type "m syscalls RET".

If that doesn't help, find out in what directory you have the syscalls
Info manual, and visit that file via "C-u C-h i", which will prompt
for a file name.

bug#18627: 24.3; M-x info does not give sycalls page

[Glenn Morris]

Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:

> I have tried M-x info RET syscalls RET and M-x info-apropos RET syscalls
> RET but both does not give back the info page of syscalls.
>
> Is there another way to read info page (that are present and readable
> from Xterm)?

When I type `info syscalls' in xterm, I actually get back the *manual
page* describing syscalls, not the *info page* (I don't think there is
an info page for syscalls?). If that is what you see too, then I don't
believe Emacs info has this feature (fallback to manpage if no info
page). You can use `M-x man RET syscalls RET'.

bug#18627: 24.3; M-x info does not give sycalls page

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 18627 + notabug
close 18627
quit

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:
>
>> I have tried M-x info RET syscalls RET and M-x info-apropos RET syscalls
>> RET but both does not give back the info page of syscalls.
>>
>> Is there another way to read info page (that are present and readable
>> from Xterm)?
>
> When I type `info syscalls' in xterm, I actually get back the *manual
> page* describing syscalls, not the *info page* (I don't think there is
> an info page for syscalls?). If that is what you see too, then I don't
> believe Emacs info has this feature (fallback to manpage if no info
> page). You can use `M-x man RET syscalls RET'.

Since there is no info page for syscalls, I'm closing this as notabug.

If anyone disagrees, feel free to re-open.

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas