Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-10 Thread Kevin Barry
OK so I downloaded the tarball from the lilypond website and added the info directory to the Info-default-directory-list, but that didn't work, even after adding all of Hwaen's suggested entries to the dir file (is there a reason this is empty?). I can manually open the dir file with Info and I

Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-10 Thread Kevin Barry
Thank you for responding. > Did you restart Emacs? There are also key sequences for rereading the > info file but I did not look at them. Yes but that didn't help. > > If that doesn't help, obviously the provided lilypond-doc package is > broken. If I point info to the dir file with C-u then

Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kevin Barry writes: > Hi all, > > I have installed the lilypond-doc package on my system (Fedora), but > it didn't add anything to the main info directory. Did you restart Emacs? There are also key sequences for rereading the info file but I did not look at them. If that

Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-09 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Kevin, Hmmm. The line in your .emacs file looks identical to mine, though the location itself is different. Is it possible that some permissions need to be changed? I am not familiar with the lilypond-doc package, having downloaded the documentation with the --documentation flag to the

Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-09 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi Hwean, Thank you very much for your response. I added the entries you suggested to dir, but they still have not showed up in my main directory, despite this entry in .emacs: (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/share/doc/lilypond-doc/share/info") Have I done something wrong? The

Re: Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-09 Thread Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings Kevin, I think the easiest thing to do would be to put someting into the dir file that you cited above. Most likely, you will have to do this as root. In my file, I have the following: LilyPond * LilyPond Changes: (lilypond-changes). New features in 2.19.46 since 2.18 * LilyPond

Using .info documentation in emacs

2016-09-09 Thread Kevin Barry
Hi all, I have installed the lilypond-doc package on my system (Fedora), but it didn't add anything to the main info directory. In the LilyPond menu in emacs two of the info buttons work (Internals and Glossary) and the other two (LilyPond and index search) both give errors. I tried adding the