From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ec9523a: Add a keybinding to the help menu to display manuals Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201013010930.20500.91773@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201013010931.ABE62209AA@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87k0vs4eun.fsf@rub.de> <83o8l3y4ut.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfg6wvjh.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 06:13:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kU04t-0000mj-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 06:13:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54114 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU04s-00014g-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01c-00069b-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01c-0007DI-7A; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01Z-0008R1-FE; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83lfg6wvjh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:10:26 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257990 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)