Re: [ELPA] New package c-intro-and-ref -- was Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Visuwesh]

[வியாழன் டிசம்பர் 05, 2024] Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> It would also make sense to make the Emacs manuals available for easy
>> download, as distributions like Debian do not include these by default.
>> Whether we distribute these by piggy-backing on package.el or have a
>> separate installer that could be distributed on ELPA is a different
>> matter, but it would be useful to have an index of already existing
>> manuals that would be interesting regardless of their relation to Emacs.
>
> A dedicated ELisp package that can download manuals and install them in
> Info format (which may require converting from another format) would be
> nice (or more generally in any format that Emacs can use, which may also
> include HTML, nowadays, tho we still need extra work to make HTML
> manuals as well integrated as Info manuals).

I know of two "standard" HTML manual "types": docsets/dashdocs and
devdocs.  We have a package in ELPA for the latter written by Augusto.
The former also has an Emacs client [1] but it invokes the sqlite3 CLI.
We can probably do better now with builtin SQLITE support.  It would be
nice to have a unifying UI for both of them but I it may be unlikely [2].

1. https://github.com/dash-docs-el/dash-docs
2. https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/issues/117