Re: Embed elisp.py from flycheck, use it in notmuch-emacs doc

[Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>]

On Sun, Jul 31 2022, David Bremner wrote:

> After finding myself spending a while trying to re-create one of the
> features [0] of the el sphinx domain used in flycheck, I decided to try
> just converting the docs to use that sphinx extension.
>
> As I remarked in 2018 [1], there doesn't seem to be a distributed
> version of this sphinx extension. It also seems like the use-case in
> notmuch is a bit different in terms of what we want to put in the
> index, but perhaps someone better at sphinx than I could do those
> customizations without modifying the extension (as this series does).
>
> Overall I think the quality of the resulting HTML documentation is
> quite nice. The change in the info documentation is less clear.  This
> may also be tweakable, but in the first version the info docs seem
> more verbose than necessary (e.g. writing "Key Binding" everywhere) On
> the other hand, if it encourages people (e.g. me) to document things,
> then it's probably a win overall.
>
> [0]: documenting both a keybinding and a function name with the same
> directive, with nice index entries.

This series is probably good; at least it does not break software
(and if doc quality (or making of it) gets better then good :D)

Tomi

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> [1]: id:20180521200856.17103-1-david@tethera.net
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