Subject: INFOPATH bug on Windows

From: Ralph Schleicher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:44:40 +0100

Hi,

on Windows, Emacs 23.3 fails to parse INFOPATH due to a hard-coded
colon as path separator.  Below is a patch together with a change
log entry.

2011-03-11  Ralph Schleicher  <[email-masked]>

	* info.el (info-initialize): Replace all uses of `:' with
	path-separator for compatibility with non-Unix systems.
	Cache quoting of path-separator.

--- emacs-23.3/lisp/info.el.orig	2011-01-08 12:45:14 +0100
+++ emacs-23.3/lisp/info.el	2011-03-11 11:45:14 +0100
@@ -588,15 +588,15 @@
 (defun info-initialize ()
   "Initialize `Info-directory-list', if that hasn't been done yet."
   (unless Info-directory-list
-    (let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH")))
+    (let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH"))
+	  (sep (regexp-quote path-separator)))
       (setq Info-directory-list
 	    (prune-directory-list
 	     (if path
-		 (if (string-match ":\\'" path)
-		     (append (split-string (substring path 0 -1)
-					   (regexp-quote path-separator))
+		 (if (string-match (concat sep "\\'") path)
+		     (append (split-string (substring path 0 -1) sep)
 			     (Info-default-dirs))
-		   (split-string path (regexp-quote path-separator)))
+		   (split-string path sep))
 	       (Info-default-dirs)))))))
 
 ;;;###autoload

-- 
Ralph