Re: [ELPA] New package: inform

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 10, 2020, at 2:27, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Why is help-fns+ not in emacs/elpa/melpa? (yet ?)
>> 
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8z2
>> jd0/why_isnt_the_code_from_helpfns_in_emacs/
>> 
>> That was 1 year ago.
> 
> The thread you cite has nothing to do with MELPA.
> The question addressed there was this: "Why isn't
> the code from help-fns+.el in Emacs?"

What I wrote → "Why is help-fns+ not in emacs/elpa/melpa? (yet ?)"

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> 
> The answer to why it is not in MELPA is here:
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7vocqa/update_on_melpa_removing_emacswiki_packages_they/dtuhzmt/
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Thank you. That link was sent by Noam before I receive your mail, to whom I 
replied, "Thank you, that makes sense".

> It's not hard to obtain help-fns+.el:
> 
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/help-fns%2b.el
> 
> And it's not hard to (require 'help-fns+)

Indeed, but since I always use package.el I had forgotten about how to simply 
install code, and I checked the manual which had no clear information about 
that and I created a new thread with the title '"Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter 
in the Emacs manual' where I'm proposing a patch to clarify/improve the 
documentation on this fundamental subject.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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