From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs info behaving strangely Date: 8 Jan 2003 09:30:14 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042044711 17818 80.91.224.249 (8 Jan 2003 16:51:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18WJQC-0004b1-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WJKj-0001MT-0B for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:45:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!novia!newscene!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-Sender: galenboyer@hotpop.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108739 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5269 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5269 On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, tiarnan.ocorrain@cmg.com wrote: > Hello-- > > something seems seriously wrong with the info facility in emacs > on my machine: when I try to access (for example) the node for > CVS, I get "No such anchor in tag table or node in tag table: > Top". However, "info cvs" from the shell accesses the file. The > directories that contain info files (including that from CVS) > are in my Info-directory list. I have the following entry in my dir file. * CVS Manual: (cvs.info). CVS Manual. I have the files cvs.info and then cvs.info-1/9 I found the "." directly after the second ")" seemed important. Also, of course, the filename between the ()'s needs to match the first one in the hierarchy, exactly. -- Galen Boyer