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Emacs configuration for authors who research, write and publish articles, books and websites.
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ews-missing-executables - instructions unclear #26

Closed julian-hoch closed 1 month ago

julian-hoch commented 1 month ago

The book mentions that the function "ews-missing-executables" is used to check for missing executables. I assume this is run automatically on startup, but that is unclear - at first I thought I have to manually run this, and then got confused that it is a) not interactive and b) has mandatory parameters. So, I think this should be made clear. Why mention the function name at all, if you cannot call it manually? Also, a clear message in the log if everything was found could be helpful.

pprevos commented 1 month ago

Hi @julian-hoch,

Thanks for the feedback.

This is not an interactive function because it requires a complex list of packages to test. It runs automatically when the EWS init file is loaded.

I have updated the function to include a message when all listed executable files are found. I have also clarified the relevant paragraph in chapter 4 for future editions.

regards

P:)