On Jul 28, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Mike McLean wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Markus Baden writes:
> > I just installed org-mode via the recipe provided with the current
> > development version of el-get [1]. Org-Mode is installed correctly
> > into emacs.d/el-get/org-mode and the docs can be found in the doc
> > subfolder. The recipe [2] adds the doc to the info via the :info "doc"
> > property. However, when going to the info browser with C-h i the
> > org-mode docs cannot be found. In the doc subfolder there is a file
> > called "org" (no filename extension), which looks like the info file.
> > After doing a "cp org org.info" the org-mode info shows up in the info
> > browser.
> 
> El-get for whatever reason seems to think that all info files have a
> ".info" suffix, but they appear to never check if that assumption is
> true.  I don't understand how they set up the info tree further on from
> looking at the sources.  File a bug report for el-get I'd say.
> 
> Looking at this a bit this morning, I'm not sure that it is el-get (at least 
> alone) that is insisting on the .info suffix. The portion of elisp in el-get 
> that adds the .info suffix:
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (if (string= (substring infofile -5) ".info")
>     infofile
>     (concat infofile ".info"))
> #+end_src
> 
> (Side note, I did try a work around, 
> https://github.com/SkydiveMike/el-get/commit/88920c84bbe4d814bae1e79cdda163315d8d8d24
>  that doesn't work).
> 
> Is only called if the ~dir~' file does not exist (and other conditions) and 
> as part of creating a command string for ~/usr/bin/install-info~. Since an 
> non-built (no execution of ~make~) Org mode Git clone has a ~dir~ file, this 
> code is never called.
> 
> I also don't believe that ~cp org org.info~ in 
> ~$HOME/.emacs.d/el-get/org-mode/~ fixes things (I currently can't get the 
> correct info to display using that).

After some more investigation, I don't think this is a bug with either Org or 
el-get. I had other issues with my Info path setups in my specific 
configuration (Emacs on OS X from http://emacsformacosx.com) that included an 
invalid build-directory artifact and more significantly always put the Emacs 
``info'' directory as the first item in my ``Info-directory-list''. This meant 
that the built-in Org info would always supersede the info for my current 
version of Org (installed by el-get). 

Once I resolved all of that, my Emacs Info now sees the correct version of Org 
info from el-get without needing to ``cp org org.info''. 

More gory details at: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/issues/821

Sorry for the noise.

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