Notes on setting MANPATH to work with Cygwin.
--- a/INSTALL.rst Wed May 18 14:49:08 2016 +0300
+++ b/INSTALL.rst Wed May 18 15:11:29 2016 +0300
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
After setting ``HOME`` environment variable Emacs expands ``~`` path element to
that directory allowing quicker access to your file (especially with ``ido``).
-``INFOPATH`` automatically expanded to ``~/usr/share/info``. With
-``cygwin-mount.el``Cygwin info pages become available in native Emacs too!
+``INFOPATH`` automatically expanded with additional directory
+``~/usr/share/info`` if already not set. With ``cygwin-mount.el`` Cygwin info
+pages become available in native Emacs too!
.. note::
@@ -31,23 +32,20 @@
paths and native Emacs to include its own info pages regardless installation
directory.
-Setup MANPATH.
---------------
+``MANPATH`` automatically expanded with additional directory
+``~/usr/share/info`` if ``cygwin-mount.el`` is installed. Trailing ``:``
+correctly treated in native Emacs with ``cygwin-mount.el``.
-To use woman with on Windows set MANPATH like this (note that path in
-Cygwin/MinGW style so you need use cygwin-mount.el)::
+.. note::
+
+ To use ``woman`` on Windows set MANPATH like this (note that path in
+ Cygwin/MinGW style so you need use cygwin-mount.el)::
MANPATH=:/cygdrive/d/home/usr/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man
-for Cygwin or like this::
-
- MANPATH=/e/home/usr/share/man:/e/bin/MinGW/man:/e/bin/gnuwin32/man
+.. note:: Default man search paths is listened in ``/usr/share/misc/man.conf``.
-for MinGW and other case.
-
-To get man paths on Cygwin see <cygwin-root>\usr\share\misc\man.conf.
-
-Also you can set woman-manpath variable.
+..note:: You can customise ``woman-manpath`` variable.
GTD (org-mode).
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