Re: How to get info pages for Emacs?

[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:10:17 +0000, in message
B8D164BED956C5439875951895CB4B22284D111A@CAFRFD1MSGUSRIA.ITServices.sbc.com,
KARR, DAVID wrote:

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> > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dk068x=att.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-
> > gnu-emacs-bounces+dk068x=att.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Dale Snell
> > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 10:21 AM
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs?
> > 
> > On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:44:52 +0000, in message
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> > KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got Cygwin Emacs 24.5.1 on my desktop and Emacs 24.3.1 on my
> > > CentOS 7 VM.
> > >
> > > If I open the main "info" node on each, I see an "Emacs" node on
> > the
> > > first, but not on the second.  How do I get the missing Emacs
> > info
> > > pages on my CentOS 7 VM?
> > 
> > There's a couple of things I can think of.  First off, is there an
> > "emacs-doc" package for Centos?  If so, is it installed?
> > Honestly, I don't think this is the problem, since emacs' info
> > file should be part of the emacs package, but it's easy to check:
> > 
> >     yum list emacs-\* | grep -i doc
> 
> No obvious "doc" package:
> ----------------
> % yum list emacs-\*
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Installed Packages
> emacs.x86_64
> 1:24.3-11.el7                 @base
================%<-------- snip! -------->%================
> emacs-vala-el.noarch
> 0.20.1-3.el7                  base -----------------------------

Yeah, I didn't think there would be.  As I said, emacs.info is
supposed to be included in the emacs package.

> > Next, check in "/usr/share/info" for the file "emacs.info".  If it
> > isn't there, try re-installing emacs.  If it is there, check the
> > same directory for the file "doc", which is the top-level node for
> > Info.  It should have the lines:
> > 
> >     Emacs
> >     * Emacs: (emacs).
> > 
> > (possibly more) in there, under Editors.

> % ls *emacs*
> emacs-gnutls.info.gz  emacs.info.gz  emacs-mime.info.gz
> 
> % ls *doc*
> ls: cannot access *doc*: No such file or directory
> 
> However, if I run "info emacs" from the command ilne, it brings up
> the Emacs info node.  It's just Emacs that can't find its own info
> page.

Interesting.  There is no /usr/share/info/doc file at all?  What
does info show you when you run just "info" from the command line,
without specifying a subject?

I'm running Fedora 21, which shouldn't be much different from
Centos.  To me, this looks like a packaging error on Centos' part.
So far as I know, /usr/share/info/doc has to be there; it's the
top-level info node.  (I could be wrong, of course; if so, I hope
someone more knowledgeable will jump in here.)

--Dale

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