From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "KARR, DAVID" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to get info pages for Emacs? 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X-Received-From: 209.65.160.93 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104853 Archived-At: > -----Original Message----- > From: Tassilo Horn [mailto:tsdh@gnu.org] > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:52 AM > To: KARR, DAVID > Cc: Dale Snell; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs? >=20 > "KARR, DAVID" writes: >=20 > >> That file is called "dir". > > > > Ok, that's helpful. > > ------------------ > > % ls -lt dir emacs* > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 83214 Jun 3 13:31 dir > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10853 Jun 9 2014 emacs-gnutls.info.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28148 Jun 9 2014 emacs-mime.info.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 651392 Jun 9 2014 emacs.info.gz > > ------------------- > > > > However, the "dir" file doesn't have the main Emacs nodes. It > looks > > exactly like what I see in Emacs. >=20 > Strange. I think that file is used both by info on the command > line and > by emacs, so you should get the same index in both. >=20 > Anyway, normally the package manager should update the dir file > when > packages get installed or removed but that doesn't seem to have > happened > on your system for whatever reasons. But you can do that manually, > too: >=20 > % install-info info-file dir-file >=20 > adds an entry for the given info-file in the given dir-file. So > you can > do that for the missing files and hopefully that will resolve the > issue. Ok, well, that fixed it. I can now see the Emacs info both from the comman= d line and from within Emacs, and the variable is set and correct. It seem= s likely this was some sort of flaw in the image assembly. I'll first ask = the person who gave me access to this image. We'll see how far he can take= it.