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28.0.91; Missing Transient manual in Emacs

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Message #17 received at 53316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 53316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53316: 28.0.91; Missing Transient manual in Emacs
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:15:21 +0100

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Am 25.01.2022 um 21:30 schrieb Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>:
>> 
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Transient has its own manual (transient.org/.texi), but that's missing
>>>> from the version shipped with Emacs.  Could we add the manual to the
>>>> Emacs release?
>>> 
>>> Sounds like a good idea to me; adding Jonas to the CCs.
>> 
>> Agreed.  I was planning to create a new release first and merge that
>> into "emacs-28" before doing so, but it seems the ship has sailed.
>> 
>> On the other hand it contains important bug fixes (but also new
>> features) and nothing on "emacs-28" uses it yet.  So maybe it would
>> still be okay to update even during the pre-release phase; I don't know.
>> Removing it from "emacs-28" and only releasing it in 29 (or maybe 28.2)
>> might also be an option.
>
> Or maybe it would be feasible to add the manual version that
> corresponds to the Emacs 28 version?

Yes.  Just saying that wasn't the plan.  (And that won't make the bugs
go away.  And some of them were quite severe, but I believe that those
that made it necessary to kill Emacs from the outside have at least
been neutered, i.e. there's still an error but Emacs remains usable.)

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