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Re: Emacs info files
Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
> 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
Unless you have built it yourself from source, then they will be in
/usr/local/share /info.
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