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

[Robert Goldman]

David Reitter wrote:
> 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 *"?

Actually, I didn't need to gunzip /all/ the files --- it was enough to
unzip the dir.gz directory.  That made the merging work.  Question:
would it be OK to gzip all the files /except/ the directory?

I'm not sure what's going on with the /usr/local/info, etc. files,
except that /some of/ those seem to have info files but no dir files.

But I find that /usr/local/share/info does have a valid dir file, so I'm
not sure why that's not being pulled in from the
Info-default-directory-list.  I will see what I can discover...

R
> 
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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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