Re: Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:33:56PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> One good aspect of emacs always was the very good documentation.
> However, after installing emacs20 from potato I discovered that "info
> emacs" shows the man page and that there is not a way to get the info
> files to show up when calling emacs' info mode.
> 
> I have noticed that most of the files in /usr/share/info have -info or
> .info in there name, but emacs' files and some other packages also
> don't - and they do not show in when calling info.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing something obvious?

This is a bug.  The workaround is to symlink {emacs,viper,gnus}-e20.gz
to {emacs,viper,gnus}.info.gz

Cheers,
Chris

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