From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: INFOPATH on MSYS(2) (WAS: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE) Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 20:17:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftpyqell.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0loujuf.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y34bxzoo.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87h8axwsv6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87mukmmmyg.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ftq8iwon.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87d0l9n9mh.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87k1fg7n3e.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83sgu4wszs.fsf@gnu.org> <874l6kh49v.fsf@russet.org.uk> <874l6k1mm5.fsf@telefonica.net> <87ef5nae97.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83pnp7vgcq.fsf@gnu.org> <875zqwykzl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83a7g8u9p9.fsf@gnu.org> <877ebbzuvt.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83pnp3sf6g.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfzrzesu.fsf@telefonica.net> <835zqvsckm.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9yvi4bu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83lfzqrj2d.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="147240"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 01 19:17:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hLsrf-000bxG-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 19:17:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLsrZ-0001E8-Mo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 13:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLsrG-0001D2-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 13:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLsrE-0000Xs-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 13:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4180 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hLsr7-00045s-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 May 2019 13:17:22 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Wed, 1 May 2019 10:22:08 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:120121 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 10:22:08 -0400 > Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list > > > I just checked, and MSYS does perform this conversion, both on INFOPATH and on any other FOOPATH variable that looks like a list of directories. > > > > So INFOPATH should look in MinGW Emacs as expected, separated by semi-colons. If it doesn't happen for you, there's some other factor at work here. > > > > It seems that it does perform the conversion, but in doing so drops > the the trailing colon. > > $ export INFOPATH=/c/foo:/c/bar: > $ emacs -Q --batch --eval '(print (getenv "INFOPATH"))' > "C:\\foo;C:\\bar" That's a bug that should be reported, but Phillip said the situation was much worse.