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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:36:02 +0800
> 
> 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.

Then maybe let's talk again after you have read that manual?