Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph

[Stephen Leake]

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> On 28 Mar 2022, T.V Raman wrote:
>>Sadly putting the examples in README is not very helpful since
>> installing your package from melpa doesn't appear to bring down the
>> README; one shouldn't need to click through to Github to find out
>> how to
>>use it if one has installed the package.
>
> Hunh.  Would that be something we should make a general fix for? E.g.,
> when a package 'foo' gets installed from melpa or from some similar
> package repository, and it has a README, then the README gets
> installed alongside the package as 'foo-README', or something like
> that?

That used to happen, but one directory up; the readme for ada-mode was
in ~/.emacs.d/elpa, next to ada-mode-<version>.

However, that readme was often out of date.

To access the readme now, use ? in the *Packages* buffer. That uses the
installed package files if it is installed.

The description that ? displays is either from a README file, or from
the Commentary header of the main package file; so the ada-mode readme
is in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ada-mode-7.1.8/README. Is that not the case
for elquery?

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