From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64432 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus cvs v0.6 info files not found Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:49:08 +0100 Organization: none Message-ID: <87lkhoz9fv.fsf@pdrechsler.de> References: <87mz25e3m0.fsf@pdrechsler.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174636240 10734 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2007 07:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:50:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12956@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 23 08:50:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HUeXh-0001wZ-1n for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HUeWo-0002VX-EF; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:49:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HUeWl-0002V2-7S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HUeWe-0003nC-OJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HUeWd-00038g-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:49:27 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HUeWX-00079N-Sw for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from dslb-084-057-087-153.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.57.87.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from patrick by dslb-084-057-087-153.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:49:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-057-087-153.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xEoV8GQNu2yCK2kMxW16stdtQro= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64432 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >>>>>> In <87mz25e3m0.fsf@pdrechsler.de> Patrick Drechsler wrote: > >> after installing a current CVS version of Gnus (checked out today) the >> info files are not found. Instead the Gnus info pages from Emacs are >> displayed: "This manual corresponds to Gnus v5.11.". > >> I followed the README of the CVS, which states one should include the >> following in ~/.emacs: > >> ;; CVS Gnus: >> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "/usr/local/src/gnus/lisp") load-path)) >> (require 'gnus-load) >> ;;* Version 1: From the README file of CVS Gnus: (does not work) >> ;; (require 'info) >> ;; (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/src/gnus/texi/") >> ;;* Version 2: From various posts: (does not work either) >> (require 'info) >> (setq Info-default-directory-list >> (cons "/usr/local/src/gnus/texi" Info-default-directory-list)) > > There is no difference between the way of `add-to-list' and the > way of `setq...cons'. Ah, I was not aware of this, thank you for pointing this out to me. > The Info path actually used in Emacs is `Info-directory-list', which > is initialized according to the value of > `Info-default-directory-list' when you invoke the info command for > the first time. > > There are at least two possible causes by which you don't see > the No Gnus Info. One is that you have the INFOPATH environment > variable. In that case, the directories in `Info-directory-list' > will be in the order of the ones of INFOPATH and the ones of > `Info-default-directory-list'. The other is that > `Info-directory-list' has already a non-nil value for some reason > before initializing. In the later case, `Info-directory-list' > will not reflect the value of `Info-default-directory-list'. I think I tampered with the evironment variable INFOPATH at some point, so this is probably the cause (although `echo $INFOPATH' returns nothing in the shell). > Well, though it might not necessarily be a proper solution, to > set `Info-directory-list' directly is easy. For example: > > (require 'info) > (info-initialize) > (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "/usr/local/src/gnus/texi/") Works like a charm! Thank you very much Katsumi! Cheers Patrick -- "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by" (Douglas Adams)