<snip> >> To close the loop for the record, my situation had nothing to do with > > the windows patches. > > For reasons I haven't tracked down yet the emacs package system seems > > to have had a bad day. > > Emacs has a package system and some repositories for many of the modes > > and extensions available. > > After M-x list-packages you select packages of interest for > > installation or update and life is good. It seems one of the packages > > is damaged in the repo or it became corrupted during/after update. > > Oddly, it worked great for a day after package update but then the > > package system started adding some download package directories to the > > Info-directory-list which caused the emacs info mode to find the > > French versions before anything else. I still don't know what > > triggered the madness but it's definitely happening during the package > > load/init phase and has nothing to do with MS or the recent patches. > > This was probably caused by the problem reported here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00360.html
Thanks, it's almost certainly related. I'd already sorted things out here but never actually got down to the what or how and the workaround was trivial. I figured out basically what was going on but the timing did and still does puzzle me. Since I can't go back to when it happened it will just have to remain one of life's many little mysteries. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple