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bug#39609: 26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the *Help* b
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#39609: 26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the *Help* buffer |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:50:33 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
(Please keep the debbugs address in the Cc's -- otherwise the message
won't reach the bug tracker.)
"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
> I'm sorry I should have made it clear that the problem occurs most
> clearly for packages which are not installed from Gnu Elpa or other
> package archives. After installing from a package archive the
> documentation is not taken out of the package README, despite the Elisp
> documentation in (elisp) Multi-file Packages.
>
> So please check this with Emacs- Q (possibly in a sandboxed
> environment), do (package-initialize) and install the attached package.
> To that end please extract the tar archive to a DIRECTORY and M-x
> package-install-file DIRECTORY. Then you'll see that the content of C-h
> P inform is not the content of the package's README. For Emacs-26.3
> you'll see no documentation at all and for Emacs-27.1 you'll see
> inform.el's ;;; Commentary section.
>
> Thank you
>
> Dieter
>
> PS: The inform package is now available via Melpa, just in case...
OK, so the test case is
emacs -Q
M-x list-packages
then install "inform" from Melpa
And then
C-h P inform RET
?