Thanks for reply. I am using the CVS version. But when I try (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/repos/el/auctex/doc") emacs complaints Symbol's value as variable is void: Info-directory-list What could go wrong? Thanks. Shiyuan ------------------------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:37:19 +0200 From: Tassilo Horn To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: info node missing(auctex-devel) Message-ID: <87y5y2tbvk.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Content-Type: text/plain Shiyuan writes: Hi Shiyuan, > I installed a library (auctex-devel). However I cannot see the info > node when I use C-h i. The information may be missing in the package or I > did something wrong when I installed the package. > How does a library usually insert its info node into emacs such that users > can browse it by C-h i m? How can I identify the problem and fix it? Thanks. You have to add the directory containing the info file (or to be more precise, the dir [directory index] file) to `Info-directory-list'. That's what I do for AUCTeX from CVS: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------ ------->8--- (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/repos/el/auctex/doc") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- For generating the info docs, you have to run $ make docs in the auctex checkout (probably, "make all" also creates the docs). In addition, you have to create a directory index in doc/ that lists the 2 manuals (auctex itself plus the preview-latex docs). This can be done easily like so: $ pwd /path/to/auctex $ cd docs $ install-info auctex.info dir $ install-info preview-latex.info dir HTH, Tassilo