Some entity AKA "Gary Weselle" wrote this mindboggling stuff: (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > "Cor Gest" wrote in message > news:877j5x6tri.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl... > > > > > > Some entity AKA "Gary Weselle" > > wrote this mindboggling stuff: > > > > (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > > > > > I just installed tcl8.4 and tk8.4 and their docs, but not able to read > their > > > info pages with emacs. it is not there, however I can pull them out with > > > #info on the shell. > > > > could be some reasons: > > is info-path correct in your .emacs > > are the Tc*.info files in that info-dir > > have you edited .../info/dir file qnd put in the correct entries there. > > > > Cor > > I never had any such "info-path" variable in my .emacs and still have some > info pages showing at M-x info, and realy don't now if such variable exists > as I couldn't find what it is set to when I M-x info-path which shows it > does not exist. > > the directory where the tcl info stuff are is /var/lib/dpkg/info/* Info-path is internal to emacs with standard-values: /usr/info or /usr/local/ibfo but you ofcourse can set your own. like: (setq Info-directory-info-list '(cons ("/usr/info/" "/var/lib/dpkg/info/"))) should be able to find it. But mostly I just dump progname.info files in /usr/local/info and edit the "dir" file manually to get de main-items in the top-level. info info should enlighten much of this kind of trickery. Cor -- I do NOT use any Windows(TM) products, therefore I do NOT fear mail from strangers http://www.clsnet.nl/mail.html If everything else failed to satisfy you, try reading The Frign' Manual (defvar My-Computer '((OS . "GNU/Emacs") (IPL . "GNU/Linux")))