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: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 01:23:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87vax7tzhm.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475627091 27804 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2016 00:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 00:24:51 +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 Wed Oct 05 02:24:48 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 1bra0a-0004Ev-8y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:24:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bra0Y-0002Pw-Gb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bra09-0002Pn-Sc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bra03-0005Hf-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp07.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.12]:52488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bra03-0005GB-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp07.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 189781C1F30 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 01:23:50 +0100 (IST) Original-Received: (qmail 16454 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2016 00:23:50 -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); 5 Oct 2016 00:23:49 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Bostjan Vilfan on Tue, 4 Oct 2016 09:24:34 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.12 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:111455 Archived-At: Bostjan Vilfan writes: > OK. Probably THAT was the problem (no dir file). But, is there an automatic > tool for creating the dir file? Install-info can be used. It works one info file at a time though. I don't know how to do a bulk install. I've re-added help-gnu-emacs, I expect someone there will know. A system like MSYS2 should come with the dir file correctly constructed. BR, Robert Thorpe