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- From: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
- Subject: Re: texinfo manual for C library functions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.090822.23542@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: news@daimi.aau.dk
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <FISCHER.92Dec15014923@thor.iesd.auc.dk> <1992Dec15.042930.23371@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <DREIER.92Dec14235242@durban.berkeley.edu> <1glavuINNd1g@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec15.194401.62079@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:08:22 GMT
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- slhpv@cc.usu.edu writes:
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- >Has anyone created a texinfo file which documents the functions, types, and
- >macros contained in a normal set of include files?
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- >If not, is there any interest in having access to such documentation?
-
- >Specifically what I had in mind was a 'manual' organized according to
- >include library, and indexed off function names. A figure a typical entry
- >would look like this:
-
- [...stuff deleted...]
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- I think the idea is good and worthwhile, but would recommend some consideration
- before plunging into the project. The C library is pretty huge, and thus
- writing such a libc.info is a considerable task.
-
- What is imporatnt is to assure one self that such a manual can do things that
- tha manual system do not. I my opinion, if libc.info is just another format for
- essentially the same information (perhaps with some crossreferencing), then
- some sort of intelligent emacs interface to the man system would be a much
- better investment of time and ressources.
-
- For libc.info to be worth the effort, it should be like the elisp ref manual,
- which contains tons of explanations and examples, and then we are talking a
- major effort.
-
- A man interface could deal with making of menus (based on for instance include
- libraries), indexes and references, parsing up the information from the actual
- manpages. The advantage of this would be that the system would go with whatever
- OS you would be programming on, where writing an texinfo file would fix which
- library we were talking about.
-
- Such an interface may even exist already. One would for instance like to check
- out the hyperbole package, which are supposed to deal with navigating through
- massive amounts of information.
-
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- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.
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- - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
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