From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dale Snell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs? Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:07:02 -0700 Organization: Department of redundant redundancies and tautological pleonasms department Message-ID: <20150608120702.68019dc3@zothique.localdomain> References: <20150608102118.66a46387@zothique.localdomain> <87r3pmkpmj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ddsnell@frontier.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/KaY_JT_fugBtvB8k5Sb.DxF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433790504 16027 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2015 19:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:08:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 21:08:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z22P7-0007yd-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 21:08:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z22P6-0005eg-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z22Of-0005cr-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z22Ob-0007rh-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net ([199.224.80.228]:32979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z22Oa-0007rS-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DB91FE243 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from relay03.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net ([199.224.80.246]) by localhost (filter01.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net [199.224.80.228]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HdrgOEBLZipp for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:07:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Originating-IP: [50.38.74.40] X-Previous-IP: 50.38.74.40 Original-Received: from zothique.localdomain (unknown [50.38.74.40]) by relay03.dlls.pa.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 84EF8940B6 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:07:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87r3pmkpmj.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 199.224.80.228 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104855 Archived-At: --Sig_/KaY_JT_fugBtvB8k5Sb.DxF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:43:16 +0200, in message 87r3pmkpmj.fsf@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn wrote: > "KARR, DAVID" writes: >=20 > >> Next, check in "/usr/share/info" for the file "emacs.info". If it > >> isn't there, try re-installing emacs. If it is there, check the > >> same directory for the file "doc", which is the top-level node for > >> Info. It should have the lines: > >>=20 > >> Emacs > >> * Emacs: (emacs). > >>=20 > >> (possibly more) in there, under Editors. > >>=20 > >> Beyond that, I'm lost. > > > > % ls *emacs* > > emacs-gnutls.info.gz emacs.info.gz emacs-mime.info.gz > > > > % ls *doc* > > ls: cannot access *doc*: No such file or directory > > That file is actually named "dir". Ooops! Boy is my face red. Only three letters, and I got two of them worng. Oh dear. >=20 > > However, if I run "info emacs" from the command ilne, it brings up > > the Emacs info node. It's just Emacs that can't find its own info > > page. >=20 > What's the value of `Info-directory-list'? I guess it doesn't contain > /usr/share/info/, and then that's the problem. That variable is > documented to be initialized from `Info-default-directory-list', so > what's the value of that variable? >=20 > Bye, > Tassilo >=20 Thanks, Tassilo. I was completely ignorant of those variables. My dealings with Info are limited to reading the docs. (Fedora's packaging seems to always put things in the right place.) I've never tried to build an info file myself. --Dale --=20 Delusions are often functional. 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