From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 22:07:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvighta7.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475867300 18217 195.159.176.226 (7 Oct 2016 19:08:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 19:08:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 21:08:16 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 1bsaV8-0003ZC-DR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 21:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsaV7-00009m-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsaUg-00009V-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsaUd-0000oE-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsaUd-0000nT-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1835 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bsaUb-0008LU-2F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:07:37 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Javier on Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:28:01 +0000 (UTC)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:111482 Archived-At: > From: Javier > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:28:01 +0000 (UTC) > > adding this to .emacs should solve it > > (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/msys64/mingw64/share/info") This cannot be right on Windows, since that is not a complete Windows file name, it lacks the drive letter.