Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available
On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote:
> Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com> writes:
> >
> > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at
> > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive!
> >
> > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el
>
> Ditto. Some of these dpkg docs are html; if you have w3, when you
> deb-view one of these docs you can 'w3-preview-this buffer' to display
> it right. It can't follow the links (hmm...that'd have to be pretty
> abstract) so view each file separately, if that's comfy for you.
I realized this last night, and added support for W3 into deb-view. I'm
going to add INFO support as well, then I'll announce the update. I
guess neither mode will be able to follow links, but it's still
very useful.
...RickM...
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