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#35885
25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
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Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 16:00:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: fixed, patch
Found in version 25.2
Fixed in version 28.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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>>> Is it certain that the Emacs manuals are always processed using
>>> the texinfo.tex that comes with that same version of Emacs?
>>
>> (...)
>
> In general, texinfo.tex comes with the Texinfo package, and is
> installed in some system-wide directory. That we in Emacs have the
> latest unreleased version is fine, but if someone processes the
> Emacs manual with the older system-wide version, they will stumble
> on this new feature.
>
> However, I don't know if this is a real danger, hence my question.
Ah, someone may use texinfo.tex form Texinfo package instead of - e.g
- newest one, got it.
Well, texinfo.tex is in emacs.texi.tar.gz (manual in TEXI format), so
I think that's like saying: "use this version of texinfo.tex (or maybe
newer)", and if someone uses older... well, his choice, but it may not
work.
Therefore that's not a problem, I guess.
S. U.
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