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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::334 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:120120 Archived-At: On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 00:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > ??? You mean MSYS2 Bash doesn't convert the colons to semi-colons (and > > the /d/foo/bar file names to Windows d:\foo\bar) when they pass > > INFOPATH to native MS-Windows programs? That's a terrible bug. Doing > > these conversions are the main reason for MSYS existence, and the main > > difference between it and Cygwin. > 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"