From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:16:33 +0300 Message-ID: <834kp6my0u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ft8qn0mz.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 35885@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastian Urban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 13 16:17:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1k6E2Y-0008zB-Gx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:17:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2X-0004tl-Ci for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2Q-0004tb-Of for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2Q-00017g-FW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2Q-0006WG-Az for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:17:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:17:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35885 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35885-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35885.159732820925038 (code B ref 35885); Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:17:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35885) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Aug 2020 14:16:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50589 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2D-0006Vm-LK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38370) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E2B-0006VY-8j for 35885@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E26-00015f-2K; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1227 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k6E24-0003Rf-On; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:16:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Sebastian Urban on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:06:37 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:185028 Archived-At: > Cc: 35885@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Sebastian Urban > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:06:37 +0200 > > > Is it certain that the Emacs manuals are always processed using the > > texinfo.tex that comes with that same version of Emacs? > > I'm not sure if I understand. I don't know how they are build at all > by Emacs devs, e.g. which texinfo.tex version is chosen. Right now > in "root/doc/misc" (Emacs repo) texinfo.tex version is: 2020-06-25.17 > (master) and 2019-09-24.13 (emacs-27) and 2017-12-26.21 (emacs-26). > My changes require at least 2020-05-14. In general, texinfo.tex comes with the Texinfo package, and is installed in some system-wide directory. That we in Emacs have the latest unreleased version is fine, but if someone processes the Emacs manual with the older system-wide version, they will stumble on this new feature. However, I don't know if this is a real danger, hence my question.