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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:13 -0500
> 
>   > > 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?

Not immediately, no.  I suggest to discuss that with the Texinfo
developers, since they distribute some files that are supposed to
reference all the GNU manuals in existence.

>                                                               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.

It's your "Introduction to the C language" manual.