Re: how to view the texinfo for a package

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 3 Sep 2017, at 21:11, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 19:05:25 +0200, c. wrote:
>> Some forge packages (very few actually) ship a .info manual which gets 
>> installed with the package.
>> The examples that I could find are odepkg (which I am trying to fix) and 
>> communtications.
> 
> The optim package includes a function "optim_doc" that solves this
> problem its own way.
> 
> Take a look at #44529 [1] for some initial ideas about making the doc
> function aware of packages. I think it would be a good thing if the doc
> function knew whether a function was part of a package and could look
> into the appropriate info file if a package provides one.
> 
> [1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44529


I am quite sure that, for odepkg, until some time ago in the past, typing
"doc odepkg" would open the package info manual.

Do you or anyone else know, when or how this changed?

> -- 
> mike

c.