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Re: info-emacs-manual?


From: Leo Butler
Subject: Re: info-emacs-manual?
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:36:11 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Jean Louis wrote:
>
>>> After an
>>> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> Sounds like Debian GNU/Linux. They have an issue with some
>> information in that manual, if I remember well they did not
>> accept some verbatim opinions in the manual and thus have
>> sorted it under non-free packages.

True, but irrelevant, since I have the manual installed.

>
> You are right:
>
>   
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48211/emacs-manuals-are-missing-on-debian-ubuntu
>
> But install from source then and get the opt-in-free manual :)
>
> This I do on Debian 11, to get GNU Emacs 29:
>
>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs

Interesting, but irrelevant. As I wrote, I can get to the emacs manual
(installed from the debian repo) using

M-x info-emacs-manual RET

Ok, I will file a bug report against the debian package unless someone
tells me otherwise.

Leo



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