From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Fox <firefox@firemail.cc>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs-Guix 0.3.1
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:56:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1ay31up.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h90cby8h.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 22 May 2017 19:25:02 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Actually, I think Info is superior, not least because of the index. In
> an Info reader (Emacs, for example) you can hit “i” and start typing a
> concept. A well-written manual will take you right to the section
> explaining the concept, even if the exact phrase is not used in the
> manual text.
>
> For those who aren’t yet familiar or comfortable with Info readers work
> is underway to add some JavaScript to HTML pages that can be generated
> from the Texinfo sources. The added scripts would provide similar
> features as a traditional Info reader application.
>
> Until then I really recommend learning a bit about Info and how to use
> it. It’s a really good system and generally provides better results
> than a web search.
BTW, the manual now has a “getting started” section on how to take
advantage of locally-installed documentation:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Documentation.html
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-24 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 19:00 [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.1 Alex Kost
2017-05-22 6:21 ` Fox
2017-05-22 8:51 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-05-22 17:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-24 11:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-05-23 2:48 ` myglc2
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