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

[Robert Goldman]

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