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

[Richard Y. Kim]

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_