From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'eric5931'" <eric5931@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to get to info mode
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:06:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BDB7143691CD41A080E2CEBDDA598BF4@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55243be7-791f-4432-888b-6f975d2ea671@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com>
> > If that is a major mode, check the value of
> > `auto-mode-alist' - perhaps some
> > code you load adds a mapping for `*.info' files to `text-fly-mode'.
>
> Thanks. I added a auto-mode-alist line for the file "dir". But it
> didn't help. I did a grep to see anything change the mode. It all
> looks allright to me.
No, don't fiddle with `auto-mode-alist' unless it is already mapping `.info' to
the wrong mode.
> I jump to info mode with saved bookmarks. I have tried C-h i. It works
> for my own info file. But everytime I jump to /usr/share/info/dir, it
> showed the correct file, but in "Text Fly" mode and is in a normal
> buffer, not *info* buffer. When I repeat this to go to teh Emacs info
> file, it is in the correct mode though.
If `C-h i' works for your own file, but not for some others, then they are not
listed in the `dir' that you are using. It sounds like you need to do what
Pascal suggested:
> You can also add directories to the variable Info-directory-list
Or better yet, customize option `Info-additional-directory-list', which is
intended for user modification.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 22:26 How to get to info mode eric5931
2009-10-20 23:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-20 23:53 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9188.1256082833.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-21 13:50 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-10-21 18:36 ` eric5931
2009-10-21 18:38 ` eric5931
2009-10-21 20:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-10-22 18:46 ` eric5931
2009-10-21 10:44 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-10-21 18:43 ` eric5931
[not found] <mailman.9290.1256237202.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-22 20:32 ` Jon Solberg
2009-10-23 13:38 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-23 13:56 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.9307.1256305215.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-23 14:07 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-10-23 14:46 ` Richard Riley
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