From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:53:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2dptgbv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475520832 5395 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2016 18:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 18:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bostjan Vilfan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 20:53:49 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 1br8Mz-0000dT-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br8N1-0005e1-5w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br8MZ-0005bW-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br8MT-00055f-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:55372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1br8MT-00053L-Cy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7FB998FFA for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 18:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 32561 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2016 18:53:09 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.90.211]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 3 Oct 2016 18:53:09 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Bostjan Vilfan on Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:25:10 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.8 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:111447 Archived-At: Bostjan Vilfan writes: > set up emacs so that I can access all manuals in > /msys64/mingw64/share/info. As Thien-Thi Nguyen says you can set infopath, and as Eli Zaretski says that should work. The path needs to be set so that it's seen by Emacs. You have to make sure the value isn't just local to some instance of cmd.exe. I don't do that, instead I do something like this: (setq Info-additional-directory-list '("C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/share/info")) Note that the "dir" file in directory you specify has to be correct. There can sometimes be problems with this on Mingw and derivatives. You can check that it's correct by running command line info. BR, Robert Thorpe