From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cor Gest Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: new package info not found Date: 10 Apr 2006 22:29:29 +0000 Organization: Clsnet Linux Systems Message-ID: <87zmit5ak6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> References: <443ac27a$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> <877j5x6tri.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> <443ad410$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1399901097==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144708891 6028 80.91.229.2 (10 Apr 2006 22:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 11 00:41:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FT540-00085S-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FT540-0007PC-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:40:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Copyright: Copyleft http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html X-Gpg-Id: pub 1024/65AF7A91 cor@clsnet.nl X-Gpg-Key: http://pki.surfnet.nl X-Www-Site: http://lisplab.clsnet.nl/index.php X-Mail-Policy: http://www.clsnet.nl/mail.html X-Microsoft-Free-Domain: YES X-Terror-Status: PITA MAJOR X-Favorite-Beer: Kilkenny X-Bofh-Pub: 'O Leary - Utrecht User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.183.106 Original-X-Trace: 1144708154 news.xs4all.nl 11077 [::ffff:213.84.183.106]:45951 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138672 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34291 Archived-At: --===============1399901097== Content-Type: text/plain charset=us-ascii 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"))) --===============1399901097== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ help-gnu-emacs mailing list help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs --===============1399901097==--