From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:34:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmz0m30p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1jgdsev.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:51:04 +0200)
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:51:04 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > If INFOPATH works, then why doesn't Info-directory-list work? Do they
> > point to the same directory?
>
> Info-directory-list contains only the directory where the Emacs info
> files are installed (under ".../msys32/mingw32/share/info") while
> INFOPATH contains the directories where the MSYS2 info files are, for
> instance .../msys32/usr/share/info (IIRC).
>
> Since Emacs is a MinGW ("native") application it is expected that it
> ignores the existence of the MSYS2 ("cygwinized") directories unless
> something tells it otherwise, such as INFOPATH in this case.
Understood. The OP said he customized Info-directory-list, so I
assumed it pointed to the correct list of directories. I believe you
are talking about the default value of Info-directory-list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-03 7:25 can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Bostjan Vilfan
2016-10-03 13:36 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2016-10-03 15:39 ` Bostjan Vilfan
2016-10-03 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 19:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-04 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-04 13:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-04 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-04 15:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-04 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-04 20:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-03 13:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-03 14:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2016-10-03 18:53 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-10-07 18:28 ` Javier
2016-10-07 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-08 4:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-10 14:01 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] <CAAm34zrx18a0YgDqg=ht1NSg+Q+fbx6nu_oMkwNqfSZpCpg3Dw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-05 0:23 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-10-05 2:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
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