From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, stefankangas@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kU01Z-0008R1-FE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfg6wvjh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:10:26 +0300)
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> The ELPA package installation procedure (implemented in package.el,
> AFAIU), doesn't install Info files.
Indeed, it can't install them in the system's Info directory,
and shouldn't if it could.
> It is not a catastrophe not to move the files physically -- they come
> with a DIR file of their own, and thus can be added to the Info
> directory list -- but the problem is that they are mixed with many
> non-Info files, and that violates the expectations of Info readers.
How about making an 'info' subdirectory in the package
and putting the info files there? Then it could put
that subdirectory in the Info directory list.
Would that be a solution?
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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2020-10-14 19:06 ` master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals Stefan Kangas
2020-10-14 22:33 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-15 7:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 7:34 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-15 9:00 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-15 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-16 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 4:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-10-18 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-16 4:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 6:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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