Broken links in manual (info, html)

Broken links in manual (info, html)

[Christian Henz]

Hello,

I ran into some broken links in the manual (info & html, both version 21 and 
22). First in the info documentation for emacs21 in Debian testing:

$ info emacs "Custom C Indent"

The link at the bottom does not work. Then also in the online documentation 
for emacs22:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Custom-C-Indent.html

Links at the bottom give a 404 error.

cheers,
Christian Henz

Re: Broken links in manual (info, html)

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Christian!

In <mailman.322.1138349142.2878.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> on Thu, 26 Jan
2006 19:12:43 +0100, you wrote: 

> Hello,

> I ran into some broken links in the manual (info & html, both version
> 21 and 22). First in the info documentation for emacs21 in Debian
> testing:

> $ info emacs "Custom C Indent"

> The link at the bottom does not work.

By "not work" do you mean you get an error like "Info file ccmode does
not exist"?

That target of that link is "*Note Customizing Indentation:
(ccmode)Customizing Indentation".  The "(ccmode)" means the node sought
is in the file called "ccmode", which happens to be the CC Mode manual.
Have you got this manual installed?

> Then also in the online documentation for emacs22:

> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Custom-C-Indent.html

> Links at the bottom give a 404 error.

The GNU project hasn't installed the HTML version of the CC Mode manual
in the place the Emacs manual expects,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/ccmode/>.  So I'm sending a
copy of this email to webmasters@gnu.org, as suggested.  It would seem
that the html links in this manual have been erroneously generated.  I
don't know if html ccmode is installed on www.gnu.org.

However, there is an HTML version of the CC Mode manual available at
<http://cc-mode.sf.net/html-manual>, though this is the manual for the
newest version of CC Mode, 5.31.

> cheers,
> Christian Henz

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)

Re: Broken links in manual (info, html)

[Christian Henz]

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 17:09 schrieben Sie:
> Hi, Christian!
>
> In <mailman.322.1138349142.2878.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> on Thu, 26 Jan
>
> 2006 19:12:43 +0100, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I ran into some broken links in the manual (info & html, both version
> > 21 and 22). First in the info documentation for emacs21 in Debian
> > testing:
> >
> > $ info emacs "Custom C Indent"
> >
> > The link at the bottom does not work.
>
> By "not work" do you mean you get an error like "Info file ccmode does
> not exist"?
>

It says: "Customizing Indentation: No such file or directory"

> That target of that link is "*Note Customizing Indentation:
> (ccmode)Customizing Indentation".  The "(ccmode)" means the node sought
> is in the file called "ccmode", which happens to be the CC Mode manual.
> Have you got this manual installed?
>

$ locate ccmode
/usr/share/info/emacs-21/ccmode-1.gz
/usr/share/info/emacs-21/ccmode-2.gz
/usr/share/info/emacs-21/ccmode-3.gz
/usr/share/info/emacs-21/ccmode-4.gz
/usr/share/info/emacs-21/ccmode.gz

"$ info ccmode" does not work, but "$ info 'CC Mode' " does.

> > Then also in the online documentation for emacs22:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Custom-C-Indent.html
> >
> > Links at the bottom give a 404 error.
>
> The GNU project hasn't installed the HTML version of the CC Mode manual
> in the place the Emacs manual expects,
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/ccmode/>.  So I'm sending a
> copy of this email to webmasters@gnu.org, as suggested.  It would seem
> that the html links in this manual have been erroneously generated.  I
> don't know if html ccmode is installed on www.gnu.org.
>
> However, there is an HTML version of the CC Mode manual available at
> <http://cc-mode.sf.net/html-manual>, though this is the manual for the
> newest version of CC Mode, 5.31.
>

Thanks!
Christian Henz