From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs? Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:49:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87616xso2g.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433811015 14550 80.91.229.3 (9 Jun 2015 00:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 00:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ddsnell@frontier.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org To: "KARR\, DAVID" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 09 02:50:05 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 1Z27jw-0000YQ-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 02:50:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z27jv-0000DV-78 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z27jk-0000DE-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z27je-0005Fd-PY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:42440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z27je-0005FN-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0A3398723 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 00:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2015 00:49:44 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.77.131.217]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 9 Jun 2015 00:49:44 -0000 In-Reply-To: (dk068x@att.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.8 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:104865 Archived-At: "KARR, DAVID" writes: >> % install-info info-file dir-file >> >> adds an entry for the given info-file in the given dir-file. So >> you can >> do that for the missing files and hopefully that will resolve the >> issue. > > Ok, well, that fixed it. I can now see the Emacs info both from the > command line and from within Emacs, and the variable is set and > correct. It seems likely this was some sort of flaw in the image > assembly. I'll first ask the person who gave me access to this image. > We'll see how far he can take it. When you specify a manual on the command line using info, like "info emacs", info will search the relevant files like /usr/share/info for the specified file. It doesn't have to be mentioned in the dir file. But, if nothing is specified then the dir file is used and if there's no entry for an info file then nothing is shown. Emacs works the same way. Before you edited your dir file if you'd have done (info-display manual "emacs") it would have worked. The underlying problem is that the package manager should have called install-info for you. The installation script isn't complete. BR, Robert Thorpe