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A Texinfo aware `,describe` command.

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From: Yuval Langer <yuval.langer <at> gmail.com>
To: 70640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70640: A Texinfo aware `,describe` command.
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:47:50 +0300

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Hello hackers,

I have noticed there are many docstrings containing Texinfo markup,
but when one runs the `,describe` command, one gets the Texinfo markup
source, not a render of those Texinfo commands.

I wish to write a better `,describe` command that would render Texinfo
in a pleasant way.  Attached are some procedures I wrote for this
purpose.  They are far from being complete, but I wish to start a
conversion about the topic.

I searched for the describe command in the guile source code and found:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/module/system/repl/command.scm#n346

Is that the right place?

Also, the code of these files is currently stored in:

https://codeberg.org/kakafarm/guile-fancy-describe/

Also also, previous message related to this:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2024-04/msg00015.html

[fancy-docstrings.scm (text/x-scheme, attachment)]

[mucking-about.scm (text/x-scheme, attachment)]

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