RE: How to get info pages for Emacs?

[KARR, DAVID]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tassilo Horn [mailto:tsdh@gnu.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:43 AM
> To: KARR, DAVID
> Cc: ddsnell@frontier.com; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs?
> 
> "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com> writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Beyond that, I'm lost.
> >
> > % ls *emacs*
> > emacs-gnutls.info.gz  emacs.info.gz  emacs-mime.info.gz
> >
> > % ls *doc*
> > ls: cannot access *doc*: No such file or directory
> 
> That file is actually named "dir".
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What's the value of `Info-directory-list'?  I guess it doesn't
> contain
> /usr/share/info/, and then that's the problem.  That variable is
> documented to be initialized from `Info-default-directory-list', so
> what's the value of that variable?

That variable isn't even defined.