X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB3329E.6020007@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:31:42 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emacs info files References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/31/2010 4:54 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > On 2010.03.31 10:21, Gary . wrote: >> I have a new cygwin installation on which I have also installed >> emacs. I have an older installation in which I also have emacs >> installed. On the newer install I don't appear to have any info >> pages for emacs, but do on the older one (I think, I can't >> actually check right now). Why would I not have them, and how can >> I get them? One difference is that the new installation has >> emacs-nox whereas the older one has emacs-X11 (although I >> actually only ever use it from the console, I don't use X). >> >> Oh. C-h i in emacs shows the info page *confuzzed* >> > Tip from my NOTE file for native Emacs under Windows: > > ** Setup INFOPATH. > > To browse info file inside Emacs set INFOPATH like this: > > > INFOPATH=e:/bin/gnutls/share/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/info;e:/bin/gnuwin32/share/info;e:/bin/MinGW/info;e:/bin/MinGW/share/info;e:/bin/wget/info: > > for MinGW or > > INFOPATH='~/usr/share/info;d:/opt/cygwin/usr/share/info:' > > for Cygwin. The OP has just reported that his problem has disappeared. But to correct the record for the sake of the archives, your INFOPATH is not appropriate for Cygwin's emacs. The emacs info files are in /usr/share/info. Ken Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple