From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4826: 23.1; woman-manpath, woman-man.conf-path on MS Windows with Cygwin Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: <7D3F20CA4B154B88B024209D1F0EBAC7@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 4826@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256803668 5497 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2009 08:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:07:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 09:07:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3Q2m-0006sd-ET for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Q2l-0002OE-UX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Q2Y-0002JC-7S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Q2Q-0002E8-1u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39598 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Q2P-0002E2-Qf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:47352) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3Q2P-000642-3P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9T87E6e030547; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:07:14 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9T7o46K027757; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:50:04 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:50:04 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:50:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 4826 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.125680210327072 (code B ref -1); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:50:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 29 Oct 2009 07:41:43 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9T7fgmF027069 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:41:43 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Pdd-0000WG-LG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3PdZ-0000VK-4M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38173 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3PdZ-0000VH-18 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:38297) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3PdY-00023G-KE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n9T7fL8P000315 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:41:22 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n9T0Iucl031793 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:41:33 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt019.oracle.com by acsmt357.oracle.com with ESMTP id 20693450761256802048; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.184.158) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:40:48 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcpYayATiuFFOR2kRZSkNJWiw/aVlA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4AE9472B.009F:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:07:22 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32270 Archived-At: Seems like the default value of things like `man-path' on MS Windows should not be ("/usr/man" "/usr/share/man" "/usr/local/man"). I have Cygwin installed (but I'm not using Cygwin Emacs), but the default value does not reflect this. Even the doc string of `woman-manpath' says this: Microsoft platforms: I recommend including drive letters explicitly, e.g. ("C:/Cygwin/usr/man/" "C:/Cygwin/usr/local/man"). One wonders who "I" is here (that's not helful, for doc), but in any case, why can't Emacs itself do something like that for the default value? That default value, even if hard-coded, would be better for Windows users than the actual default value of ("/usr/man" "/usr/share/man" "/usr/local/man"). There is more chance that a Windows user has Cygwin installed than that the Unix directories will work! In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'