From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 06:18:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87zimfzd58.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <83mvighta7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475905675 1378 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2016 05:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 05:47:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 07:47:51 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 1bskUA-0008FH-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:47:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bskUC-00053h-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsj6V-00048Z-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsj6R-0006Wk-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:19:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38396 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsj6R-0006Td-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bsj6G-0005u8-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 06:19:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8RmuyFEy87d98LOXs1be1g/fFMw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:47:29 -0400 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:111483 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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.