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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > As a general design principle, it doesn't seem to make sense to
  > > include all GNU manuals in the Emacs distribution merely because they
  > > are useful manuals.  The idea was to relese them separately and have
  > > them installed separately into a combined info tree.
  > > 
  > > Why is that not working?  What needs to be changed in some GNU/Linux
  > > distros?

  > It does work in general.  However, some manuals, which don't belong to
  > any project in particular, are largely unknown to exist.

Have you got any ideas for the good ways to inform the community about them?

                                                              The two
  > prominent examples I have are for some reason both related to the C
  > language: gnu-c-manual.info and c.info.  The latter is not even
  > mentioned in dir-example file that the Texinfo project distributes.

What is c.info?  I don't recall hearing about it.

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