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Re: ~Make emacs friendlier: package documentation [POC CODE INCLUDED]


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: ~Make emacs friendlier: package documentation [POC CODE INCLUDED]
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:24:51 +0300

> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:09:29 -0400
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> 
> A programmer's idea of a friendly environment might be the opposite of a
> user's in that what programmer enjoys writing documentation, and having
> to repeat the process with almost identical text in more than place, and
> in more than one format. There are docstrings, and then there's the
> commentary at the top of the elisp file, and then any info file, and
> what else.
> 
> Attached is working proof-of-concept code to allow a user to easily get
> all a package's in-line documentation, in the format of an org-mode
> buffer, to cover cases where there is no info file, or to supplement the
> info file.

Thanks.  Does this do more/different things than "C-h P"?  AFAIK,
"C-h P" also uses the commentary part of a package's source file.  If
something is missing there, perhaps we could add or extend what
"C-h P" does?



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