[Aquamacs-devel] Info-directory puzzlements....
Robert Goldman
rpgoldman at sift.info
Wed Jul 15 17:30:08 UTC 2009
Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:
> 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/")
Please see my exchange with David --- I did as you suggested, and got
the same bad behavior as I originally reported, when the dir file was
gzipped. When I gunzipped the dir file, I got the happier results.
Best,
Robert
>
> --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 <http://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
> <http://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
> <mailto: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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