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Re: Running external info within Emacs
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Arash Esbati |
Subject: |
Re: Running external info within Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:51:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> So inside Emacs, the only command that works is "info dir", and all
> the other "info FOO" commands, where FOO ≠ dir, fail?
I think I have a pointer: Eval'ing (getenv "INFOPATH") in scratch gives
(linebreaks added for legibility):
C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\local\\info;
C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\share\\info;
C:\\msys64\\usr\\local\\info;
C:\\msys64\\usr\\share\\info;
C:\\msys64\\usr\\info;
C:\\msys64\\share\\info;
C:\\texlive\\2023\\texmf-dist\\doc\\info;
C:\\emacs\\share\\info
Now I eval (async-shell-command "info -x 2 latex2e") for debug infos:
info: inaccessible directory C not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\mingw64\local\info;C not added to
INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\mingw64\share\info;C not added to
INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\local\info;C not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\share\info;C not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\usr\info;C not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \msys64\share\info;C not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \texlive\2023\texmf-dist\doc\info;C not added to
INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory \emacs\share\info not added to INFOPATH
info: adding /usr/share/info to INFOPATH
info: found file /usr/share/info/dir
info: looking for file "latex2e"
info: looking for file latex2e in /usr/share/info
info: closing -
info: No menu item 'latex2e' in node '(dir)Top'
info seems to see the Windows style paths and chokes. If I change
"INFOPATH" to unix style and run the command like this:
(with-environment-variables (("INFOPATH"
"\
/C/msys64/mingw64/local/info:\
/C/msys64/mingw64/share/info:\
/C/msys64/usr/local/info:\
/C/msys64/usr/share/info:\
/C/msys64/usr/info:\
/C/msys64/share/info:\
/C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info:\
/C/emacs/share/info"))
(async-shell-command "info -x 2 latex2e"))
I get:
info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/mingw64/local/info not added to
INFOPATH
info: adding /C/msys64/mingw64/share/info to INFOPATH
info: adding /C/msys64/usr/local/info to INFOPATH
info: adding /C/msys64/usr/share/info to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/usr/info not added to INFOPATH
info: inaccessible directory /C/msys64/share/info not added to INFOPATH
info: adding /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info to INFOPATH
info: adding /C/emacs/share/info to INFOPATH
info: duplicate directory /usr/share/info not added to INFOPATH
info: found file /C/msys64/usr/share/info/dir
info: found file /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info/dir
info: found file /C/emacs/share/info/dir
info: looking for file "latex2e"
info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/mingw64/share/info
info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/usr/local/info
info: looking for file latex2e in /C/msys64/usr/share/info
info: looking for file latex2e in /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info
info: found file /C/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/info/latex2e.info
info: writing node (latex2e.info)Top...
info: writing node (latex2e.info)About this document...
[...]
File: latex2e.info, Node: Top, Next: About this document, Up: (dir)
and it works. So your first idea about "INFOPATH transformation several
times" was correct. Is there a fix for this? WDYT? I can of course
(setenv "INFOPATH" "...") in my init file, but that's not my first
choice.
Best, Arash
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