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Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for f


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:05:19 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>   > For example, with a dynamically generated Info manual with groups of 
> functions
>   > and the addressing scheme such as (info "(shortdoc) regexp functions"),
>   > would the users of the standalone Info reader expect that visiting
>   > the same Info location should produce the same documentation to them
>   > in the standalone Info reader?
>
> I think it ought to work for that if possible.
>
> Why can't the dynamically generated manual be written into Info files
> which are then accessible in all the usual ways?

It would require an additional step of running 'make' to update
the generated manuals, whereas most Help commands have the advantage
of immediately displaying the most recent information.

However, the Emacs Info reader could display the most recent information,
but for the users of the standalone Info read we could write that
into Info files.



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