Re: emacs-info command?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:48:13 +0200
> 
> > Hello,
> >     what do you think of Emacs coming with an emacs-info command that shows
> > current Emacs build information. I miss a command that quickly shows info
> > about current Emacs.
> > My current implementation is very basic:
> > https://codeberg.org/mmontone/emacs-snippets/src/branch/master/emacs-info.el
> >
> > And shows a buffer with:
> > ----------------
> > Version: GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> > 2.24.33, cairo version 1.18.0)
> >  of 2024-08-13
> > Features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> > LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3
> > THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM
> > GTK2 ZLIB
> > Native compilation: no
> > SVG: no
> > --------------
> 
> We could show more information at the end of 'C-h C-a'.

We could, but IMO we shouldn't: this is not what that command is for.