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Circe, a Client for IRC in Emacs
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Add INFO node #329

Closed jidanni closed 6 years ago

jidanni commented 6 years ago

There is no .info file, just those of the "competitors",

$ dlocate rc.info
emacs25-common-non-dfsg: /usr/share/info/emacs-25/erc.info.gz
emacs25-common-non-dfsg: /usr/share/info/emacs-25/rcirc.info.gz

even after I did

# aptitude install elpa-circe
wasamasa commented 6 years ago

IIRC there used to be one, but it was dropped in favor of the Wiki.

jidanni commented 6 years ago

Even though one could say one is probably online when using the program, one would still like to read-up on it offline, etc.

Anyway surely there is some script to convert wiki pages to INFO pages... Ah, "About pandoc If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. "

jorgenschaefer commented 6 years ago

Texinfo is a terrible format to write documentation in. Info is a terrible format to read documentation with. The documentation we had was outdated and badly maintained. I don't see Circe having an info manual again, ever.

Shouldn't stop people who want to spend effort on this in writing one, but I'd hesitate adding it to this repository as it will most certainly be outdated soon enough again. The wiki is hard to update as is. But a separate package would work.

jidanni commented 6 years ago

pandoc --to=texinfo, --to=pdf ...