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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guidelines for writing Emacs manuals in texinfo?
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:03:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k22gtvxx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmns1u95.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Sun, 06 Aug 2017 10:27:50 -0700)

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 10:27:50 -0700
> 
> > Look in the Texinfo manual, it explains the GNU guidelines for that.
> > Maybe there are a few quirks specific to Emacs, but if there are, I
> > couldn't recall them, so they must be minor.
> 
> Thanks, I had checked there, but not deeply enough. It looks like the
> "Definition Commands" section is what I was after.

The Texinfo manual is extensively indexed, so "i defun RET", for
example, will land you where that command is described.



      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-06 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-06 16:01 Guidelines for writing Emacs manuals in texinfo? Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-06 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 17:27   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-06 18:03     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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