Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 01 Dec 2024 at 09:45am +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Cc: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:02:58 +0800
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat 30 Nov 2024 at 03:50pm +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> > FWIW, I don't think this (IMO very useful and installed on my
>> > machines) manual belongs to Emacs.  It should be a separate manual.
>>
>> Could we add a pointer to it somewhere in our development notes?  Maybe
>> CONTRIBUTE?  This is the first I have heard of it.
>
> Isn't the fact that it was mentioned here enough to have it found by a
> browser search?
>
> There are a lot of useful manuals that people might not hear about,
> but it doesn't mean it's Emacs's job to solve those problems.
>
> How about taking this up with the Texinfo developers?  After all,
> Texinfo is a much more logical place to advertise GNU manuals, see
> dir-example and htmlxref.cnf files in the Texinfo tree.

My thought is that it might be particularly helpful for people learning
more C for Emacs development, because it's written by Richard.
Some of the thinking behind the less usual ways in which C gets used for
Emacs might become clearer, perhaps?

Having not yet read the manual, my opinion counts for little.

-- 
Sean Whitton