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Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?


From: Robert Thorpe
Subject: Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?
Date: 15 Dec 2006 09:41:40 -0800
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Hadron Quark wrote:
> "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
<snip>
> I can see a reason for both. Thanks for the "info" .. lol.
>
> As an aside, one thing that has really surprised me at the moment though is 
> the lack
> of man pages / info pages for the gtk 2.0 libraries - making it
> impossible to bring up help in the emacs "IDE".

Yes.  That is irritating, especially since the docs for the original
GTK did support Info.  Now they only generate DocBook formats.  This
was because of a decision to use a similar sort of comment extraction
system to the one Emacs uses for C-h f, C-h v etc.



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