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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 06:18:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zimfzd58.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83mvighta7.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> adding this to .emacs should solve it
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/msys64/mingw64/share/info")

As previously mentioned, this is not needed because Info-directory-list
already contains the correct path. OTOH, the docstring of
Info-default-directory-list implies that customizing this variable is
not quite correct.

The problem is the missing dir file. There is a recipe on this thread
for generating it.

> This cannot be right on Windows, since that is not a complete Windows
> file name, it lacks the drive letter.

Indeed, although it can work by chance if Emacs and your work files are
installed on the same volume.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-08  4:18 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
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 [this message]
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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