From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't access info dir in emacs under msys2 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475865421 5739 195.159.176.226 (7 Oct 2016 18:37:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:37:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) 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 20:36:57 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 1bsa0n-0008Tb-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsa0k-0005hR-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:36:46 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: IfDmNFPK9MZNghHQdlVWog.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218985 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:111481 Archived-At: > however, I am experiencing difficulties in accessing manuals, other > than the emacs manual and the emacs lisp manual (for example, I > would like to access the org mode manual). Could someone, please, > let me know how to set up emacs so that I can access all manuals in > /msys64/mingw64/share/info. adding this to .emacs should solve it (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/msys64/mingw64/share/info") Another pesky detail is that there needs to exist a file named 'dir' in each of the info directories /msys64/mingw64/share/info/dir and the org-mode manual needs to be listed in the file. Then hit C-h i and you should see a list of all installed manuals. Since some manuals are not included in distros (or the distros put them in the wrong place) you can keep a private info dir with the manuals that interest you. (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/MY_OWN_INFO_DIR") and add an entry for each manual in ~/MY_OWN_INFO_DIR/dir The format of the file is very picky on capitalization. Mine is ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top. The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node. ^_ File: dir, Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics. Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here, "h" gives a primer for first-timers, "mEmacs" visits the Emacs manual, etc. In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference to select it. * Menu: Python * Python-3.3: (python-3.3). The Python Documentation * Python-2.7: (python-2.7). The Python Documentation * numpy-1.8.0: (numpy-1.8.0). Numpy for python2 * scipy-0.13.3: (scipy-0.13.3). Scipy for python2 * sphinx: (sphinx). Sphinx 1.1.3 Doc LANGS * perldoc-all: (perldoc-all). perldoc MISC * sicp: (sicp) SICP