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Re: Some Emacs manual errors.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Some Emacs manual errors.
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:56:40 +0200

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:46:24 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>     This section describes the commands to check the spelling of a single
>     word or of a portion of a buffer.  These commands work with the spelling
>     checker program Ispell, which is not part of Emacs.  *Note Ispell:
>     (ispell)Top.
> 
>     -> Attempts to follow the Ispell link results in the message
> 
>     Info file ispell does not exist
> 
> I guess you need to install that file.

I don't think that's the right solution: latest versions of Ispell
don't come with an Info manual, only with man pages.

I think we need to remove that xref.

>     In the top-level info directory the following entries appear twice.
>     They seem to represent every other entry in the list that precedes these
>     duplicates.
> 
> I suspect that is due to a bug in install-info, but that's just a guess.
> To make progress on debugging it, you'd need to investigate the processes
> of installation that brought the file to its current state.

Either that, or $INFOPATH mentions the same directory twice, or
perhaps the OP has both dir and dir.gz or something like that.




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