From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: eric5931 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get to info mode Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <55243be7-791f-4432-888b-6f975d2ea671@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com> References: <082ac86d-0e6e-4f61-91e6-07557581314a@v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87eiox64y0.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256150862 22094 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2009 18:47:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:47:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 21 20:47:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0gDU-00015J-SZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N0gDU-00066d-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:47:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.244.229 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256150294 11154 127.0.0.1 (21 Oct 2009 18:38:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.81.244.229; posting-account=svH6SwoAAAC2_FatTT_hDIZZbfAN6Kzi User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174059 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69141 Archived-At: On Oct 20, 4:53=A0pm, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > > I'm using emacs 23.1.1 in a new RHEL 5 host. When I visit any INFO > > > files, like /usr/share/info/dir, somehow the emacs didn't > > > get to INFO mode as in my other hosts. Instead, it is in > > > "Text Fly" mode and I cannot use the links to see related info. > > > How could I set it to info mode? > > > > Also, do I need to do anything in my .eamcs to let it automatically > > > goto info mode? I thought emacs should do this by itself. > > > You should be able to access to the info files in standard directories > > such as /usr/share/info by typing: C-h i =A0or M-x info RET > > > You can also add directories to the variable Info-directory-list. > > Start by finding out why it is in "Text Fly" mode. Find out what the func= tion is > that sets that mode (probably something like `text-fly-mode'). Find out w= here > that function gets called (in the Lisp code you load). > > If that is a major mode, check the value of `auto-mode-alist' - perhaps s= ome > code you load adds a mapping for `*.info' files to `text-fly-mode'. Thanks. I added a auto-mode-alist line for the file "dir". But it didn't help. I did a grep to see anything change the mode. It all looks allright to me. Eric