RE: [h-e-w] Info not working when emacs started from Cygwin shell

[Sprenger, Karel]

Hi,

 

Just looked at my own setup.  Under NT my INFOPATH variable is set to "c:/emacs/info;c:/cygwin/usr/info;c:/usr/local/info", which I change to "/emacs/info:/usr/info:/usr/local/info" when starting a Bash login shell by having the line

 

INFOPATH=`cygpath --unix --path $INFOPATH`

in my ~/.bashrc file.  This is needed for cygwin's command-line info program which doesn't grok the NT-ish INFOPATH value.

 

When I start NTemacs (21.1) from NT, info has no trouble using the INFOPATH variable, but when I start it from the Bash shell, NTemacs gets confused.  Not that it starts up ange-ftp, but it simpy doesn't set Info-directory-list. Info-default-directory-list looks OK, but contains path names like c:/emacs/info and /usr/info.  A kludge would be to define an alias for emacs in ~/.bashrc which undoes the earlier cygpath before starting the real emacs. The following works for me:

 

alias emacs='INFOPATH=`cygpath --windows --path $INFOPATH`;/emacs/bin/emacs'

BTW you definitely need Klaus Berndl's cygwin-mount.el if you don't have it installed already.  You can download it from http://paddington.ic.uva.nl/public/cygwin-mount.el.  It will convert cygwin style paths on the fly to NT-ish paths using the cygwin mount information.

 

Cheers,

Karel

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Y. Kim [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 19:10
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: [h-e-w] Info not working when emacs started from Cygwin shell

Olivier,

I would recommend that you check the value of
Info-directory-list variable.
This tells "info" where to look for the info files.

Another way to disable ange-ftp is to do

    (setq file-name-handler-alist nil)

Ange-ftp is activated because the name of a file that you
are loading matches one of the regular expressions in
file-name-handler-alist variable.

My guess as to to cause of problem is that your
Info-directory-list has a path of the form
"/address@hidden:/a/b/c" which matches one of the
regexp's in file-name-handler-alist.

>>>>> "OJ" == Olivier Jacquemin <address@hidden> writes:
    OJ>
    OJ> Hello,
    OJ> I am using NT Emacs in collaboration with the Cygwin tools.  In particular,
    OJ> I start Emacs from the Cygwin bash shell, with
    OJ>
    OJ> $ emacs &
    OJ>
    OJ> However, if I try to get help from within Emacs, using "info" for instance
    OJ> "C-h i", Emacs tries to access a server using FTP.  This is the contents of
    OJ> the "Messages" buffer when trying the above command:
    OJ>
    OJ> Loading info...
    OJ> Loading easymenu...done
    OJ> Loading tool-bar...done
    OJ> Loading info...done
    OJ> Password for address@hidden:
    OJ>
    OJ> Then I cancel the operation with "C-g" and get in the "Messages window":
    OJ>
    OJ> ange-ftp-get-passwd: Quit
    OJ>
    OJ> I do not have the same problem when I start Emacs "the Windows way" (Start
    >> Programs > GNU Emacs > Emacs): "info" works fine.
    OJ>
    OJ> The problem is not related to my ".emacs" file, because it also occurs when
    OJ> it does not exist.
    OJ> I have the problem with versions 20.7 and 21.1.
    OJ>
    OJ> Many thanks for your help, if possible !
    OJ>
    OJ>      _Olivier_