From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 39609@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39609: 26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the *Help* buffer
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:19:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86tutelagn.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuuf1rf3.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:59:12 +0100")
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Hello Lars
thank you for looking into this!
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
>
>> The Elisp manual (GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
>> Version 3.22.30) of 2019-12-14) states that a README file in the content
>> directory of a package will be used as a package description (C-h P).
>>
>> Please check
>>
>> (info "(elisp) Multi-file Packages").
>>
>> Yet this isn't working! By looking at other packages It seems that
>> there must be a file `PACKAGE-NAME-readme.txt' BELOW the content
>> directory to get a description in the package help.
> I tried `C-h P ada-mode RET' and got a *Help* buffer that included the
> README file for the ada-mode package, so I seem to be unable to
> reproduce this bug.
> Do you have a precise recipe to reproduce it, starting from "emacs -Q"?
I prepared a multi-file package for you. Under Emacs 26.3 or earlier
you won't see any "long description" at all (unless you include a
PACKAGE-NAME-readme.txt in the package archive). Under 27.1 it shows
now the ;;; Commentary: section of the PACKAGE-NAME.el file. But NOT
the content of the accompanying README!
Please unpack the archive inform-1.4.tar into an empty DIRECTORY and
install the package interactively with package-install-file pointing to
the DIRECTORY.
Thank you for your help
Dieter
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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-24 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 20:59 bug#39609: 26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the *Help* buffer H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-10-27 17:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24 21:19 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2020-11-25 7:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <86h7pcknk9.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
2020-11-27 8:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-11 16:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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