Re: Making the GNU C Manual easier to find in Info

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: spwhitton@spwhitton.name, jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:05:14 -0500
> 
>   > Isn't the fact that it was mentioned here enough to have it found by a
>   > browser search?
> 
> That is a very low standard of helpfulness.  We should aim to be more
> helpful than that, with our Info manuals.

Agreed.  But the place to seek such help is not necessarily here.

>   > 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.
> 
> That is true -- helping to make users aware of the GNU C Manual is not
> particularly the mission of GNU Emacs.  But it is the mission of the
> GNU system.  We -- the GNU Project -- ought to do a better job of this.
> 
> Unfortunately, the GNU Project has no Info Tsar whose job is to plan
> changes in various GNU packages to bring the Info system to full
> fruition.  Can some of us join a discussion about this, perhaos with
> some Texinfo developers and others who might be helpful?

I think the Texinfo developers are the de-fact "czars" of the GNU Info
documentation.  So the discussions about this are best held on Texinfo
mailing lists, IMO.