Re: Integration of Info manuals in programming modes

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  spwhitton@spwhitton.name,
>>   jb@jeremybryant.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:25:35 +0100
>> 
>> One thing where Info is on-topic here are Emacs integrations.
>> 
>> I remember how useful it was when I had texinfo links directly
>> available in Emacs:
>> https://www.draketo.de/light/english/free-software/read-your-python-module-documentation-emacs
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: info-look.el already supports "C-h S" for
…
> installed.  So why would a separate add-on package such as pydoc-info
> be needed nowadays?  Perhaps it was needed many years ago, when
> info-look.el didn't have the Python part?  Or what am I missing?

I’d rather think that *I* was missing info-look.el

>> This is something that would be really nice to have as default for most
>> GNU packages in most programming modes.
>
> What other GNU programming packages which have Info manuals and

Many Python packages *could have* info manuals when their documentation
can be parsed to info (as for example by Sphinx — that’s the essential
part of the article).

So that’s something we could encourage packagers to do.

Can I get info completion from LaTeX? I’d think that pandoc can
transpile most of the extensive LaTeX package documentation to
texinfo/info.

⇒ besides some (now) smaller tooling issues, I see the biggest drawback
  in not having all available that could be in info with not too much
  effort.

Do other distros have more info manuals than Guix?

Best wishes,
Arne
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