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Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE
From: |
Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:13:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:35:45 +0200
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> I will have a poke around and see if I can find out where this is set
>> >> for msys.
>> >
>> > Regardless, I think this should be reported to MSYS, because they need
>> > to fix it.
>>
>> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/631
>
> Wow, 4 years!
>
> I think they should be told about the trailing colon feature, maybe
> that will help them fix the problem. Or not.
Or not, am afraid.
The fix is very simple. INFOPATH is set in /etc/profile.
https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/filesystem/profile
But, Emacs will ignore the final colon regardless. The code is
below. The problem is we match against path-separator which is ";" not
":", so we never do the `append'.
(defun info-initialize ()
"Initialize `Info-directory-list', if that hasn't been done yet."
(unless Info-directory-list
(let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH"))
(sep (regexp-quote path-separator)))
(setq Info-directory-list
(prune-directory-list
(if path
(if (string-match-p (concat sep "\\'") path)
(append (split-string (substring path 0 -1) sep)
(Info-default-dirs))
(split-string path sep))
(Info-default-dirs))))
......SNIP
This follows the info documentation which says:
However you set INFOPATH, if its last character is a colon (on
MS-DOS/MS-Windows systems, use a semicolon instead), this is replaced
by the default (compiled-in) path. This gives you a way to augment the
default path with new directories without having to list all the
standard places.
Both Emacs and the Info documentation are wrong, I think, since they
assume the path seperator for environment variables on MS-Windows
systems in ";" which isn't true in general.
Phil
- Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE, (continued)
- 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, 2019/04/29
- 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 <=
- 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