Directories for Ezwinports

Directories for Ezwinports

[Robert Thorpe]

I find Emacs most useful with auxiliary GNU tools like grep, find and
some compression tools.  I also sometimes use images.  So, I install the
packages for these things on MS Windows.  README.W32 recommends using
the Ezwinports builds of these tools.  Today I was installing those.
Each one of them is a separate zip file that creates a little unix-like
directory hierarchy with a "bin", "share", etc.  Dealing with those
directly would require a lot of PATH entries and
Info-default-directory-list entries.  Does anyone know if its possible
to install them all of them into the same hierarchy?

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Re: Directories for Ezwinports

[Óscar Fuentes]

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

[snip]
> Does anyone know if its possible
> to install them all of them into the same hierarchy?

Yes. Actually, they are designed to share the same hierarchy. And please
note that you need only the `bin' directory in PATH.

Re: Directories for Ezwinports

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:24:24 +0100
> 
> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> > Does anyone know if its possible
> > to install them all of them into the same hierarchy?
> 
> Yes. Actually, they are designed to share the same hierarchy.

Indeed.  It's even mentioned in the README there.

Re: Directories for Ezwinports

[Robert Thorpe]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Indeed.  It's even mentioned in the README there.

Thanks.  I'll read more carefully in the future.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Re: Directories for Ezwinports

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 2015-01-08, Robert Thorpe wrote:

> Each one of them is a separate zip file that creates a little unix-like
> directory hierarchy with a "bin", "share", etc.  Dealing with those
> directly would require a lot of PATH entries and
> Info-default-directory-list entries.  Does anyone know if its possible
> to install them all of them into the same hierarchy?

From my: http://sourceforge.net/u/gavenkoa/dot-emacs/ci/default/tree/INSTALL.rst

I used this mostly for extend Cygwin/Mingw man/info for own directory (c:\home\usr\share)

Setup MANPATH.
--------------

To use woman with on Windows set MANPATH like this (note that path in
Cygwin/MinGW style so you need use cygwin-mount.el)::

  MANPATH=:/cygdrive/d/home/usr/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man

for Cygwin or like this::

  MANPATH=/e/home/usr/share/man:/e/bin/MinGW/man:/e/bin/gnuwin32/man

for MinGW and other case.

To get man paths on Cygwin see <cygwin-root>\usr\share\misc\man.conf.

Also you can set woman-manpath variable.

Setup INFOPATH.
---------------

To browse info file inside Emacs set INFOPATH like this for Cygwin::

  INFOPATH=e:/opt/cygwin/usr/share/info;e:/home/usr/share/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/share/info:

and like this for MinGW::

  INFOPATH=e:/bin/gnutls/share/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/share/info;e:/bin/MinGW/info;e:/bin/MinGW/share/info;e:/bin/wget/info:

Note that last colon symbol is essential for include also Emacs info to list.


-- 
Best regards!

Re: Directories for Ezwinports

[Robert Thorpe]

Thanks a lot, I did something very similar.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2015-01-08, Robert Thorpe wrote:
...
> From my: http://sourceforge.net/u/gavenkoa/dot-emacs/ci/default/tree/INSTALL.rst
>
> I used this mostly for extend Cygwin/Mingw man/info for own directory (c:\home\usr\share)
>
> Setup MANPATH.
> --------------