From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:01:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8elpgl2.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475510614 31567 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2016 16:03:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:03:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 18:03:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1br5i8-00079V-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:03:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br5i6-00075l-3K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br5g8-0006AX-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br5g5-0000aX-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br5g5-0000aT-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1834 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1br5g4-0003Fe-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:01:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Bostjan Vilfan on Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:39:46 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111444 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:39:46 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bostjan Vilfan > > If I understand you correctly, you are referring me to the emacs manual. But that is exactly my problem. Nothing in the manual seems to work. For example, the manual says that the main info directory may be supplied with the environment variable INFOPATH. Doesn't work. Setting INFOPATH in the environment does work for me. Please describe how you set that variable, and how you invoke Emacs. E.g., if you invoke Emacs from the desktop shortcut, you need to set INFOPATH via right-clicking on "Computer", selecting "Advanced", and editing the Environment Variables list there. > Then there is the customizable variable Info-default-directory-list, which also does not seem to work. Likewise, please describe how you tried to customize that variable. Also, does the value of Info-directory-list in the running Emacs reflect your customizations?