Re: some info node manuals have no index

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: reader@newsguy.com
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:36:29 -0600
> 
> I'm noticing some of the manuals in info browser do not have indices.
> Yet when I open with the stand alone info browser the index is
> present.
> 
> An example is the gawk manual at C-h i m gawk <RET>
> If I then press `i' for index search I'm told `no index'  But going
> thru the same routine with the stand alone info browser the index
> works and can be searched with `i' command.

This probably means your Emacs and the stand-alone Info reader get
Info files from different places.

> So starting emacs with -q -no-site-file I find the gawk index works as
> expected.  Now looking thru the init files for something causing the
> problem I'm striking out:
> 
> grep -i info .emacs /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el
> 
> Only returns a few places where I've added something to
> Info-default-directory-list
>   
>   (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/gnus/texi")
>   (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/elisp-intro")
>   ;;(add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/bbdb/texinfo")
>   (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/usr/local/elisp-manual")

Maybe your .emacs or site-start.el load other Lisp files, and those
Lisp files modify the list of directories where Emacs searches for
Info files?  That is, look for `load' as well, and then grep those
additional files for `[Ii]nfo'.