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For some reason Emacs running in Windows 7 only loads the info files installed from Cygwin. If I try to C-u C-h id:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/emacs-24.3/info/dired-x.info the info file loads and renders ok. The value of Info-default-directory-list is

("c:/emacs/info/" "d:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/emacs-24.3/info/" "d:/cygwin/usr/info")

I've also tried: 

(push "/usr/local/lib/emacs-24.3/info" Info-default-directory-list)

Both adding and removing the trailing slash - but Emacs doesn't find the info files in that directory. What may be the reason?

  • Which Emacs is installed? For example, GNU Emacs 24.3.1. Your computer could have a different version of GNU Emacs. Or it could have another Emacs distribution such as XEmacs. – D A Vincent Apr 23 '15 at 10:37

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I had this issue myself, but it went away when I moved my setup to another laptop.

I can only guess, but I presume it was because I had copies of cygwin and git installed (also added some mingw tools) which were interfering somehow?

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