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Re: Correspondence between web-pages and Info-pages


From: Kelly Dean
Subject: Re: Correspondence between web-pages and Info-pages
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:30:16 +0000

Richard Stallman wrote:
> It is not onerous work, but it requires users to actively do
> something.  That is a change for the worse, so I don't want it.  I
> want package installation to install the package's info manuals
> locally, just as it does now.

That's why I wrote in my very first message in this thread:
⌜Distribute Emacs with the cache preloaded with Info files⌝

And later, in a reply to you:
⌜Emacs releases can come with the appropriate files preloaded (and pinned) in 
the cache⌝

And in yet a later reply to you, after you replied to the previous one:
⌜put the manuals in the cache (preload them there in Emacs releases), and pin 
them there⌝

IOW, users don't have to do anything. The manuals come preloaded. When you 
download Emacs, the manuals come with it, just like they do now. When you 
download a package that has a manual, it can put the manual in the same place 
where Emacs's manuals are: the cache. And pin it there.

And so we don't go in circles anymore, I'll again quote a reply I wrote to you:
⌜you're saying the manuals should be put in a different place P than the 
browser's cache C. ... what's the advantage of having P and C be different?⌝



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