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[help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index
From: |
Harry Putnam |
Subject: |
[help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:35:09 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Harry Putnam <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:22:29 -0600
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > They did no such thing. I have CVS Info manual in the old format, and
>> > the index there works for me inside Emacs.
>> >
>> >> If they didn't make that decision, it simply seems like a bug introduced
>> >> since 23.1 was released, based on the evidence at hand.
>> >
>> > Nope, the above works for me in stock Emacs 23.1.
>>
>> Eli, if you can, what is the date on your copy of cvs info files. And
>> how many are there?
>
> Exactly like yours:
>
>> For me, with cvs 1.12.12 (client/server), The info files are already
>> created in the sources pkg. They date from 2005 and there are 11 of
>> them.
>
> Me too.
>
>> Those files fail on an `i' (index) search with the message `no index'.
>
> Please look in cvs.info, and tell me what does its first line say.
A few more than 1:
,----
| This is cvs.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.5 from cvs.texinfo.
|
| INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Packages
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| * CVS: (cvs). Concurrent Versions System
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
| START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
| * cvs: (cvs)CVS commands. Concurrent Versions System
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
`----
>> However the index itself is there in the first page menu and can be
>> opened and read.
>
> Can you show here the first few lines of the Index node (it should be
> in cvs.info-10), starting from the line before the Node line?
Here, the index Node is in cvs.info-11:
[...]
,----
|
| END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
|
| ^_
| File: cvs.info, Node: Index, Prev: BUGS, Up: Top
|
| Index
| *****
|
| * Menu:
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[...]
- [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Harry Putnam, 2009/11/01
- Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Karl Berry, 2009/11/01
- Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/01
- [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Harry Putnam, 2009/11/02
- Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/02
- Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Karl Berry, 2009/11/02
- [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Harry Putnam, 2009/11/02
- Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/02
- [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index,
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