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Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS


From: Javier
Subject: Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:52:06 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: tin/2.2.0-20131224 ("Lochindaal") (UNIX) (Linux/3.14.2-1-ARCH (x86_64))

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Yes, documentation on-screen is great in the man page
> sense, the online Emacs help sense, when you want to
> know some part of the interface. If you do Elisp for
> some time, and then switch to C, you feel like an idiot
> having to Google stuff because the interface isn't
> available (though some of the C is in the
> manpages). But there is actually nothing that stops
> anyone from writing C (interface) documentation that
> would work more or less like the Elisp one.

It would be an interesting project to convert those documents to
texinfo format.  With Python it is possible to convert the
documentation (sphinx doc generator) of Python and its libraries to
texinfo, and documentation can be gerated automatically for any
python project to texinfo.



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