GNU bug report logs - #50936
"(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:50:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 50936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50936: "(emacs) Help" does say how to find external packages
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:54:18 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 19:28:30 +0200
> Cc: 50936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The manual explains what is available in Emacs.  If the user looks for
> > features not in Emacs, it is okay not to find them in our
> > documentation.  It is unrealistic for use to provide ways to find
> > features outside of Emacs, because they are too many.
> 
> I'm not suggesting to list features, but to say that 'list-packages'
> exist.  That command is a part of Emacs.

Depends on what you say there, I guess.
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