[Aquamacs-devel] Info-directory puzzlements....

[David Reitter]

The list of items looks OK for me, but the list of paths is longer in  
my case.
I wonder if it is pulling them from the /usr/local... directories, and  
if you don't happen to have those info files.

In 1.8, I gzipped the info files to save space.  It would be possible  
that the code that generates the list you see when you do M-x info is  
buggy and fails to find them.

Could you try going into the Contents/Resources/info directory and  
then do "gzip -d *"?

-David


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On Jul 15, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:

> I'm having trouble with my Aquamacs 1.8 info directory.
>
> When I fire up info I see the following items:
>
> * Menu:
>
> Software development
> * asdf: (asdf).                 another system definition facility
>
> Emacs
> * Org Mode: (org).              Outline-based notes management and  
> organizer
> * SLIME: (slime).               Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for  
> Emacs.
> * AUCTeX: (auctex).     A sophisticated TeX environment for Emacs.
> * preview-latex: (preview-latex).       Preview LaTeX fragments in  
> Emacs
> * ESS: (ess).	 Emacs Speaks Statistics for R and other stats  
> environments
>
> TeX
> * AUCTeX: (auctex).     A sophisticated TeX environment for Emacs.
> * preview-latex: (preview-latex).       Preview LaTeX fragments in  
> Emacs
>
>
>
> But when I look at the Info-directory-list, it looks like I should see
> much more:
>
> Info-directory-list is a variable defined in `info.el'.
> Its value is
> ("/Users/rpg/lisp/asdf" "/Users/rpg/emacs-packages" ""
> "/Applications/Aquamacs
> Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"
> "/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info")
>
> The only thing I don't understand is that empty string in there.   
> Could
> that be messing things up?  I don't /believe/ so, because when I kill
> the *info* buffer, remove the empty string, and then recreate the info
> buffer with C-h i, I still get the same impoverished directory.
>
> So at least one problem is that I don't see the info entries that  
> should
> have come from "/Applications/Aquamacs
> Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"  and
> "/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info"
>
> But I also see odd behavior with Info-default-directory-list:
>
> ("/Users/rpg/emacs-packages/org/doc" "~/Library/Application
> Support/Emacs/info" "/Library/Application Support/Emacs/info"
> "/Applications/Aquamacs
> Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"
> "/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info"
> "/Applications/Aquamacs
> Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"
> "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/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/" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/local/share/ 
> info/"
> "/Applications/Aquamacs
> Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/nxml/")
>
> Shouldn't the /usr/local/* entries be appearing in the Info- 
> directory-list?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> R
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