Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:10:17
From: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com>
To: "ddsnell@frontier.com" <ddsnell@frontier.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to get info pages for Emacs?
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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?
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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
emacs-common.x86_64 1:24.3-11.el7 @base
emacs-filesystem.noarch 1:24.3-11.el7 @anaconda
Available Packages
emacs-a2ps.x86_64 4.14-23.el7 base
emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 4.14-23.el7 base
emacs-auctex.noarch 11.87-4.el7 base
emacs-auctex-doc.noarch 11.87-4.el7 base
emacs-el.noarch 1:24.3-11.el7 base
emacs-gettext.noarch 0.18.2.1-4.el7 base
emacs-gettext-el.noarch 0.18.2.1-4.el7 base
emacs-git.noarch 1.8.3.1-4.el7 base
emacs-git-el.noarch 1.8.3.1-4.el7 base
emacs-gnuplot.noarch 4.6.2-3.el7 base
emacs-gnuplot-el.noarch 4.6.2-3.el7 base
emacs-golang.noarch 1.3.3-3.el7 base
emacs-libidn.noarch 1.28-3.el7 base
emacs-mercurial.x86_64 2.6.2-4.el7 base
emacs-mercurial-el.x86_64 2.6.2-4.el7 base
emacs-nox.x86_64 1:24.3-11.el7 base
emacs-terminal.noarch 1:24.3-11.el7 base
emacs-vala.noarch 0.20.1-3.el7 base
emacs-vala-el.noarch 0.20.1-3.el7 base
-----------------------------
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
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.
I hope this helps.
--Dale
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