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Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I'd create a new directory emacsref and leave the rest of the
>     manuals in man.
>
> Since the Emacs Manual is the main manual for Emacs, and the others
> are secondary, I'd rather do it as I said before.

It's only a directory name, what difference does it make? The "man"
directory is confusingly named, IMO, because it has nothing to do with
the traditional Unix "man" directory. It doesn't even contain sources
for man pages.

emacsref/man/doc and miscref/man/doc?