From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#69004: Cannot open lzip-compressed info manuals Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:55:54 +0200 Message-ID: <86ttmhv551.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8734u1inuw.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34942"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 69004@debbugs.gnu.org To: Francesco Turco Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 09 19:57:10 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW3g-0008o8-Ui for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW3O-0002Ag-0R; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW3M-00028F-2F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW3L-0002Cx-Gp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW3a-0000Fk-BO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:57:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 69004 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 69004-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B69004.1707504990874 (code B ref 69004); Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 69004) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Feb 2024 18:56:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58303 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW2w-0000Df-2p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:56:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48752) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW2u-0000DF-1x for 69004@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rYW2Y-0001mU-Cp; Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:55:58 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=PhC0xumMDmjI0da1X7rnfzH/SolALOpqI4HDN1R5FSU=; b=C8vIlY1BlvJo hRBC9SpgwFuh141GYfa1/mDE6BzR3UNWX6ASwebVD8DZjtsX9AS+06Uofej79M3XwHZom5Vf0n7o9 CuRNoTEtcfdPvX2paJWyl9P172KJGGfvRdCI7kR9MLeTAS8Z6UOZAytQDV8ebQ/uZAkZMgPQ+/7CA 6G/wEJus3JJOV1y3FGg5qnzmog0JT33mFCzfQAlLJMJygfcFkoAKGDCJ6sfeWVVVv4JeuvBEKV7vk L9UcT2nc6mC/P7DUYoQPpfMF07pjZqRbNcik1dSw4pRGq9c1W09aDxk7dCF9r4fmI19gCis53gzm/ fVMEuPYdbF4z7w58mBZiTg==; In-Reply-To: <8734u1inuw.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Francesco Turco on Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:49:59 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:279704 Archived-At: > From: Francesco Turco > 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.