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Re: Running external info within Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Running external info within Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:17:59 +0300 |
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:56:32 +0200
>
> I have an issue which I don't understand when running the external info
> within Emacs. This is on Win10 with Msys2/MinGW64 and Emacs 30
> (bfa3500c3c).
>
> I have an entry like this in my .bash_profile:
>
> export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/c/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info
>
> and when I invoke 'emacs -Q' from a MinGW64 shell and eval:
>
> (async-shell-command "info dir")
>
> I get:
>
> File: coreutils.info, Node: dir invocation, Next: vdir ...
>
> 10.2 ‘dir’: Briefly list directory contents
> ===========================================
>
> ‘dir’ is equivalent to ‘ls -C -b’; that is, by default files are listed
> in columns, sorted vertically, and special characters are represented by
> backslash escape sequences.
>
> *Note ‘ls’: ls invocation.
>
> When I eval:
>
> (async-shell-command "info latex2e")
>
> I get:
>
> info: No menu item 'latex2e' in node '(dir)Top'
>
> When I run the command 'info latex2e' in the shell where I started
> Emacs, I get:
>
> Next: About this document, Up: (dir)
>
> LaTeX2e: An unofficial reference manual
> ***************************************
>
> This document is an unofficial reference manual (version of January
> 2023) for LaTeX2e, a document preparation system.
>
> Emacs itself finds the manual as well when I hit 'C-h i'. Any pointer
> why the shell-command version doesn't work?
It's hard to say. What shell is being used to invoke commands via
async-shell-command? What value of INFOPATH does the stand-alone Info
reader see when it is invoked like that? What is the file name of the
latex2e Info file, and does it have a menu entry in the DIR file in
any of the directories mentioned in INFOPATH?
You are also hitting an ambiguity in commands such as "info foo": the
Info reader doesn't know whether you mean the file foo.info or the
menu entry "foo" in the Info directory file DIR. Use "info -f foo" to
mean the former.
Bottom line: you mix up a native Windows build of Emacs with MSYS2
Bash and (presumably) MSYS2 build of the stand-alone Info reader, and
that adds quite a few factors that could influence the outcome. In
particular, the INFOPATH variable gets transformed several times
before it gets to info.exe: once when you invoke Emacs from Bash, then
when Emacs calls the shell, then again when the subordinate shell
calls info.exe.
- Running external info within Emacs, Arash Esbati, 2023/03/30
- Re: Running external info within Emacs,
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- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Arash Esbati, 2023/03/30
- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/30
- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Arash Esbati, 2023/03/31
- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/31
- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Arash Esbati, 2023/03/31
- Re: Running external info within Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/31