From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info files Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163976041 23655 80.91.229.2 (19 Nov 2006 22:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 23:40:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlvKu-0001pV-E3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlvKu-0001Aa-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1163975147 29215 166.84.1.3 (19 Nov 2006 22:25:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:25:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143211 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38828 Archived-At: In article , Peter Dyballa wrote: > >Am 30.10.2006 um 05:17 schrieb Dan Bensen: > >> There are tons of .info.gz files in /usr/info, but Emacs info >> doesn't seem to see them. > >When you are in *info* and type C-x d (to enter dired mode): where >are you? If you're outside of /usr/info (presumingly in /usr/local/ >info), then you'll need to add /usr/info to the environment variable >INFOPATH. Or you set an INFOPATH environment variable in some init >file (site-start.el, .emacs) ... > >Check also that a ``dir´´ file exists that contains descriptions of >all info.gz files! Is what you're talking about refer especially to linux? Because I have no $INFOPATH, nor any dir44 files, yet info seems to work ok. Maybe because I myself downloaded and compiled (gnu) emacs, on my sunblade-100 solaris-9 system? And, by hand I made Info-default-directory-list's value is ("/big7/from_netcom-dir4/sources2-stuff/cvs-emacs--6apr05/info/" "/opt/csw/info/" "/opt/sfw/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/ROOT-FOR--me-FIRST-in-PATH-tree/info" "/big5/david3/from_netcom-dir1/emacs-stuff/elisp-manual-21-2.8/" "/david3/from_netcom-dir2/perl-stuff/perl-info.5.004/info/" "/myexternals/opt/gnu/diffutils-2.7/info/" "/big5/david3/from_netcom-dir1/emacs-stuff/emacs-lisp-intro-2.04/" "/opt/sfw/lib/xemacs-21.1.14/info/" "/opt/csw/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/lib/emacs/info/") Puzzled about INFOPATH and dir44-files. David