* bug#39984: INFOPATH set in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh should end in ":" for Emacs's sake
@ 2020-03-08 13:31 Adam Porter
2020-03-21 23:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Adam Porter @ 2020-03-08 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 39984
I installed Guix into my system, and I've been enjoying using it.
However, I found that, after installing it, when I logged out and back
in, and then started Emacs, Emacs could no longer see my system's info
pages (including Emacs's own info pages). I found that the Emacs
variable Info-directory-list only contained
"/home/me/.config/guix/current/share/info", so it couldn't see the
info pages in "/usr/local/share/info/" and "/usr/share/info/".
According to the Info-directory-list docstring:
If nil, meaning not yet initialized, Info uses the environment
variable INFOPATH to initialize it, or ‘Info-default-directory-list’
if there is no INFOPATH variable in the environment, or the
concatenation of the two if INFOPATH ends with a ‘path-separator’.
I found that INFOPATH is being set in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh, which does this:
# Export INFOPATH so that the updated info pages can be found
# and read by both /usr/bin/info and/or $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info
export INFOPATH="$_GUIX_PROFILE/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
Since it does not append a colon at the end, Emacs doesn't add the
directories from Info-default-directory-list. I added a colon to the
end and restarted Emacs, and it fixed the problem.
So I'd suggest adding ":" to the end of INFOPATH in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh.
Thanks.
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* bug#39984: INFOPATH set in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh should end in ":" for Emacs's sake
2020-03-08 13:31 bug#39984: INFOPATH set in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh should end in ":" for Emacs's sake Adam Porter
@ 2020-03-21 23:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2020-03-21 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adam Porter; +Cc: 39984-done
Hi Adam,
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> skribis:
> I installed Guix into my system, and I've been enjoying using it.
> However, I found that, after installing it, when I logged out and back
> in, and then started Emacs, Emacs could no longer see my system's info
> pages (including Emacs's own info pages). I found that the Emacs
> variable Info-directory-list only contained
> "/home/me/.config/guix/current/share/info", so it couldn't see the
> info pages in "/usr/local/share/info/" and "/usr/share/info/".
> According to the Info-directory-list docstring:
>
> If nil, meaning not yet initialized, Info uses the environment
> variable INFOPATH to initialize it, or ‘Info-default-directory-list’
> if there is no INFOPATH variable in the environment, or the
> concatenation of the two if INFOPATH ends with a ‘path-separator’.
>
> I found that INFOPATH is being set in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh, which does this:
>
> # Export INFOPATH so that the updated info pages can be found
> # and read by both /usr/bin/info and/or $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info
> export INFOPATH="$_GUIX_PROFILE/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
>
> Since it does not append a colon at the end, Emacs doesn't add the
> directories from Info-default-directory-list. I added a colon to the
> end and restarted Emacs, and it fixed the problem.
>
> So I'd suggest adding ":" to the end of INFOPATH in /etc/profile.d/guix.sh.
Done in 3c69701f9735dd62a2f765b8bd23a7eaeb391412.
Thanks for the clear explanation!
Ludo’.
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