bug#23208: 25.1.50; `C-h i' in an uninstalled Emacs doesn't work

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

I'm pretty sure that it didn't work in the olden days, too, but it was
fixed a few years ago.  And now it doesn't work again.

`C-h i' should default to .../info/dir if no dir file exists in
`Info-directory-list'.  Or perhaps just be a part of the default value?



In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.23 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2016-04-03 built on stories
Repository revision: f7c5f79ca565d3ef3feeb1e0af5ca261f1bcf58a
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000
System Description:     Debian GNU/Linux 7.9 (wheezy)

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS
LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent messages:
Checking new news...done
Opening nnimap server on hermes.netfonds.no...done
nnimap read 0k from hermes.netfonds.no
Info-insert-dir: Can’t find the Info directory node
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.
Quit
Mark set
("/usr/info")

Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/home/larsi/src/clock.el/clock hides /home/larsi/lisp/clock
/home/larsi/src/cddb.el/expect hides /home/larsi/lisp/expect
/home/larsi/src/pvr.el/pvr hides /home/larsi/lisp/pvr
~/pgnus/contrib/vcard hides /home/larsi/lisp/vcard
/home/larsi/src/cddb.el/captitle hides /home/larsi/lisp/captitle
~/lisp/zenirc-2.112/src/zenirc-example hides /home/larsi/lisp/zenirc-example
/home/larsi/lisp/dom hides /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/dom
~/pgnus/contrib/compface hides /home/larsi/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/image/compface

Features:
(shadow emacsbug info pulse xref project misearch multi-isearch
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sendmail ecomplete eww shr-color color qp gnus-html help-fns url-queue
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spam-report spam spam-stat gnus-uu yenc gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score
score-mode nnvirtual gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 mm-view mml-smime
smime dig nntp gnus-cache gnus-sum gnus-group gnus-undo gnus-start
gnus-cloud nnimap nnmail mail-source utf7 netrc nnoo parse-time
gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa
epg mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win gnus nnheader gnus-util
rmail rmail-loaddefs mail-utils movie mkv shr svg imdb dom pvr debug
debbugs-gnu easy-mmode derived debbugs soap-client mm-decode mm-bodies
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rfc2045 ietf-drums url-gw puny url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand
url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap warnings
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w3m-hist w3m-fb w3m-ems wid-edit w3m-ccl ccl w3m-favicon w3m-image
w3m-proc w3m-util add-log mail-extr mm-util mail-prsvr jka-compr cl
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eieio-core cl-macs gv eieio-loaddefs cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib
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term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
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menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
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jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice
loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote inotify dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
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 (symbols 48 171807 0)
 (miscs 40 191 1372)
 (strings 32 231880 19003)
 (string-bytes 1 10077183)
 (vectors 16 41731)
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 (heap 1024 115264 23765))

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