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

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

Have you tried launching without customizations ( Help--> Diagnose and
Report Bug )?
For me, M-x info shows many more items than your list -- see below.  The
value of Info-directory-list does include /usr/local/ entries:

("/Applications/Aquamacs
Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/info"
"/Applications/Aquamacs Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info"
"/usr/local/info/" "/usr/share/info/" "/Applications/Aquamacs
Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/edit-modes/nxml/")

--Nathaniel

* Menu:

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
* SLIME: (slime).      Superior Lisp Interaction Mode
* Ada mode: (ada-mode). The GNU Emacs mode for editing Ada.
* Autotype: (autotype). Convenient features for text that you enter
frequently
                          in Emacs.
* CC Mode: (ccmode).   Emacs mode for editing C, C++, Objective-C,
                          Java, Pike, and IDL code.
* CL: (cl).        Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
* Dired-X: (dired-x).   Dired Extra Features.
* EUDC: (eudc).   A client for directory servers (LDAP, PH)
* Ebrowse: (ebrowse).   A C++ class browser for Emacs.
* Ediff: (ediff).       A visual interface for comparing and merging
programs.
* Emacs: (emacs).    The extensible self-documenting text editor.
* Emacs FAQ: (efaq).    Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs.
* Emacs MIME: (emacs-mime).   The MIME de/composition library.
* Eshell: (eshell).     A command shell implemented in Emacs Lisp.
* Forms: (forms).    Emacs package for editing data bases
              by filling in forms.
* Gnus: (gnus).         The newsreader Gnus.
* IDLWAVE: (idlwave).    Major mode and shell for IDL and WAVE/CL files.

* MH-E: (mh-e).        Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
* Message: (message).   Mail and news composition mode that goes with Gnus.
* PCL-CVS: (pcl-cvs).    Emacs front-end to CVS.
* RefTeX: (reftex).    Emacs support for LaTeX cross-references and
citations.
* SC: (sc).        Supercite lets you cite parts of messages you're
              replying to, in flexible ways.



* Speedbar: (speedbar).        File/Tag summarizing utility.
* VIP: (vip).        An older VI-emulation for Emacs.
* VIPER: (viper).       The newest Emacs VI-emulation mode.
                          (also, A VI Plan for Emacs Rescue
                           or the VI PERil.)
* Widget: (widget).      Documenting the "widget" package used by the
                           Emacs Custom facility.
* WoMan: (woman).       Browse UN*X Manual Pages `Wo (without) Man'.
* nXML Mode: (nxml-mode.info).

TeX
* AUCTeX: (auctex).     A sophisticated TeX environment for Emacs.
* preview-latex: (preview-latex).       Preview LaTeX fragments in Emacs


Texinfo documentation system
* Info: (info).                 Documentation browsing system.


Miscellaneous
* Screen: (screen).             Full-screen window manager.
* Standards: (standards).        GNU coding standards.

GNU admin
* Autoconf: (autoconf).         Create source code configuration scripts

Individual utilities
* aclocal: (automake)Invoking aclocal.          Generating aclocal.m4
* autoconf: (autoconf)autoconf Invocation.
                                How to create configuration scripts
* autoreconf: (autoconf)autoreconf Invocation.
                                Remaking multiple `configure' scripts
* autoscan: (autoconf)autoscan Invocation.
                                Semi-automatic `configure.ac' writing
* config.status: (autoconf)config.status Invocation.
                                Recreating a configuration
* configure: (autoconf)configure Invocation.
                                Configuring a package
* ifnames: (autoconf)ifnames Invocation.
                                Listing the conditionals in source code
* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'

Programming
* automake: (automake).        Making Makefile.in's

Utilities
* Bash: (bash).                     The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.

GNU Packages
* Tar: (tar).            Making tape (or disk) archives.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>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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