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: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:34:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmz0m30p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a8elpgl2.fsf@gnu.org> <87oa31fcs1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mvikocu0.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1jgfe6e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pongmatw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1jgdsev.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475602558 15510 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2016 17:35:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:35:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 19:35:54 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 1brTcx-0001qO-7Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brTcv-0001Hd-OT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brTcW-0001Gs-Tu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brTcQ-0003VL-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brTcQ-0003VD-2y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3777 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1brTcN-0006Fo-25 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:35:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d1jgdsev.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?car?= Fuentes on Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:51:04 +0200) 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:111454 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:51:04 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.