From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
To: "T. V. Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info Pages for ELPA packages
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 00:05:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761ktpl8a.fsf@fx.delysid.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21377.12999.817056.616859@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (T. V. Raman's message of "Sat, 24 May 2014 17:01:11 -0700")
"T. V. Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
> I've noticed myself installing elpa packages, then pulling their
> sources from some git repo purely to get at the package's info
> files or other documentation. Can we have some affordance in
> elpa that allows packages to have info docs or documentation of
> some sort alongside elpa?
We have that already. Just place a package-name.info and a "dir" file
in the same directory as package-name.el. It will automatically be
picked up on package installation. Documented in a paragraph of the
"Multi-file package" section in the elisp info manual.
--
CYa,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-25 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-25 0:01 Info Pages for ELPA packages T. V. Raman
2014-05-25 1:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-25 22:05 ` Mario Lang [this message]
2014-05-26 4:37 ` raman
2014-05-26 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-26 22:38 ` T.V Raman
2014-05-27 2:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-27 2:47 ` raman
2014-05-27 3:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-27 15:23 ` T.V Raman
2014-05-27 16:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-27 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-27 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-27 4:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-27 10:06 ` Mario Lang
2014-05-27 11:50 ` Michael Albinus
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