From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Francesco Turco <fturco@posteo.net>
Cc: 69004@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69004: Cannot open lzip-compressed info manuals
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:55:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ttmhv551.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734u1inuw.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Francesco Turco on Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0000)
> From: Francesco Turco <fturco@posteo.net>
> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0000
>
> I'm using GNU Emacs 29.2 on a Gentoo Linux system.
>
> On this system, all info manuals are compressed with lzip and have a .lz
> suffix.
Emacs doesn't (yet) support Info manuals compressed with lzip.
> When running M-x info and opening any info manual (e.g. the info manual
> for bash), I get error messages similar to the following one:
>
> > Info file `bash' does not exist; consider installing it
>
> In reality the info manual for bash is available on my system:
>
> $ file /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz
> /usr/share/info/bash.info.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1
>
> In info.el source code there is no instance of either "lzip" or "lz".
> In particular, there is no lzip-related entry in the Info-suffix-list
> variable definition.
>
> In my opinion it would be nice to add support for lzip-compressed info
> manuals to M-x info.
Patches welcome to add lzip support to info.el.
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2024-02-09 16:49 bug#69004: Cannot open lzip-compressed info manuals Francesco Turco
2024-02-09 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-10 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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