From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: some info node manuals have no index Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:24:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87abo3uu8o.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198319128 30628 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2007 10:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:25:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 22 11:25:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J61Y4-0000st-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:25:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J61Xk-0007dB-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J61XH-0007YP-Lx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J61XF-0007Uy-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J61XF-0007UW-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J61XF-0008Rw-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-233-247.inter.net.il [84.229.233.247]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id IPT12219 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:22:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87abo3uu8o.fsf@newsguy.com> (reader@newsguy.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:50289 Archived-At: > From: reader@newsguy.com > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:36:29 -0600 > > I'm noticing some of the manuals in info browser do not have indices. > Yet when I open with the stand alone info browser the index is > present. > > An example is the gawk manual at C-h i m gawk > If I then press `i' for index search I'm told `no index' But going > thru the same routine with the stand alone info browser the index > works and can be searched with `i' command. This probably means your Emacs and the stand-alone Info reader get Info files from different places. > So starting emacs with -q -no-site-file I find the gawk index works as > expected. Now looking thru the init files for something causing the > problem I'm striking out: > > grep -i info .emacs /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el > > Only returns a few places where I've added something to > Info-default-directory-list > > (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/gnus/texi") > (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/elisp-intro") > ;;(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/bbdb/texinfo") > (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/elisp-manual") Maybe your .emacs or site-start.el load other Lisp files, and those Lisp files modify the list of directories where Emacs searches for Info files? That is, look for `load' as well, and then grep those additional files for `[Ii]nfo'.