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bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:47:39 +0000


A suggestion: when the info files bundled with Emacs cannot be found, download them from info.gnu.org (after asking the user if they're okay with that) and install them into ~/.emacs.d/info.

We already have the latest manuals at

 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html

but what you suggest will require to maintain several versions back, which is a non-trivial complication of the release procedures that are already quite complex and tedious. So I don't think we should take this issue to be our problem to that level.


In fact this makes it even easier than what I thought: it would suffice to add 60 files in the https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/info/ directory. Of course there's the version problem. Perhaps an "emacs-version" file could be added in that directory, it would be compared against emacs-version, with a warning when the files are for a more recent version.





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