Re: emacs manual and other missing info
Russell L. Harris wrote:
(1) Go to the Debian web site, find the package search page, search for
"emacs21", "xemacs21-gnome-nomule", etc.,
I already tried this, and found nothing. I just tried again, and while
there are no info files included with etch or sarge, there are a whole
bunch in the old-stable repository.
(2) From Google search on the string "emacs manual":
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html
I should have been clearer. I know the manuals are available directly
from gnu. I was hoping there was a debian way to get them installed.
There no longer is, as I have now discovered.
Kevin Mark wrote:
> it maybe that some of the manuals were reclassified as non-dfsg free >and
>were moved out of the main repositories. Many GFDL documents were
>reclassified for etch.
That appears to be the case, as confirmed in
/usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/copyright:
So, now i'm going to download and install the manual myself. I guess it
won't really be that helpful, seeing as it does include that distracting
invariant section on copying, and it's not like emacs really needs a
manual, it's so intuitive. At least it won't be for the same version I'm
actually running.
Seriously, is there a list somewhere of all the GNU docs that Debian has
expunged, or is it just a matter of stumbling on missing pieces and then
installing them as you find them?
Cheers,
Tyle
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