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Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:55:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:17:40 +0100
>>
>> > And on different topic, did you test that C-h i works as it should? Does
>> > it show the Emacs info files? There is a long-standing problem with
>> > Emacs on MSYS2 about this, although IIRC only happens when you install
>> > Emacs as an MSYS2 package. But since testing it only takes a few
>> > seconds... (I can't test myself, computer attracted lightning)
>>
>> Hmmm. Sort of. If you click runemacs.exe from the windows explorer it
>> works. If you launch it from a mingw64 shell, no, it doesn't. Or rather
>> it works, but you get the msys info which doesn't link to Emacs.
>
> Doesn't surprise me, since MSYS2 doesn't have a native Windows port of
> Texinfo, so the place they put the manuals probably only works for
> MSYS itself. Does the shell set INFOPATH, perhaps? If not, in which
> directory do the MSYS Info files get installed, relative to the root
> of the MSYS installation tree?
It does, yes, so Emacs is just doing what it is told. I guess Emacs
could ignore INFOPATH or just use it as a supplement its own files,
given that it knows their location.
Phil
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, (continued)
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/17
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Tomas Nordin, 2019/04/19
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/23
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Tomas Nordin, 2019/04/25
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/26
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/26
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/26
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/04/26
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/27
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/27
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/29
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/30
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/04/27
Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, Björn Lindqvist, 2019/04/16