On 07/03/2016 10:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Udyant Wig >> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 15:49:03 +0530 >> >> I tried to open the Calc manual in Info with these steps: >> >> 0 C-h i >> 1 m calc >> 2 error mentioned in the Subject >> >> In the top level Info directory, I could access most of the other >> nodes I tried. > > Crystal ball says that the above tried to access the installed manuals > on your system, not the ones in the Emacs 25.1.50 tree. If the guess > is correct, we have to know much more about those installed manuals > than what you told. > > FWIW, the following alternative recipe works for me with current > master HEAD, from the top directory of the Emacs tree: > > src/emacs -Q > C-u C-h i ./info/dir > m calc RET > > Thanks. Well, here are some of the variables that I think are relevant: Info-default-directory-list => ("/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/") Info-additional-directory-list => ("/usr/local/share/info") Info-directory-list => ("/home/udyant/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.89.4" "/home/udyant/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-2.7.0" "/home/udyant/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-popup-2.7.0" "/home/udyant/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-2.18" "/home/udyant/.emacs.d/elpa/with-editor-2.5.1" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/") These are samples from Dired: /usr/local/share/info: -rw-r--r-- 1 udyant staff 12763 2016-07-04 00:40:14.617361891 +0530 bovine.info.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 udyant staff 20 2016-07-04 00:40:14.645361890 +0530 calc.info.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 udyant staff 86671 2016-07-04 00:40:14.665361889 +0530 ccmode.info.gz /home/udyant/build/emacs/info: -rw-rw-r-- 1 udyant udyant 38914 2016-06-22 16:33:21.035243000 +0530 bovine.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 udyant udyant 0 2016-06-22 16:36:59.490816000 +0530 calc.info -rw-rw-r-- 1 udyant udyant 331805 2016-06-30 08:37:58.601633000 +0530 ccmode.info -- Udyant Wig