Re: Emacs20 info pages not found
Moritz Schulte wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running Potato and I wonder that my 'info' can't find the
> info pages of my GNU Emacs (20.7-2). I searched in the BTS and found
> that this was already reported, I think #64512 is the same problem.
> So, I always have to type 'info -f /usr/share/info/emacs-e20.gz' to
> view the Emacs info pages (the same for Gnus' info page).
>
> Btw: I can view the info pages in Emacs' info-mode.
>
> I haven't reported this as a bug, because it seems to be already
> reported - I just want to ask, wether i am the only one seeing this
> behaviour...
You are not the only one.
Unfortunately, emacs20 has had a broken info for quite a while.
The package contains the file /usr/share/info/dir.gz (it
shouldn't overwrite this file at all) and that files entry for
the emacs docs is wrong.
:-(
Peter
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