Bug#381163: jed-common: please consider adding Jed Intrinsic Function Reference Manual to package

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:46:55PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Marc Haber schrieb am Wed 02. Aug, 15:55 (+0200):
> > Package: jed-common
> > Version: 0.99.18-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the Jed Intrinsic Function Reference Manual, obtainable on
> > http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/doc/jedfuns.html, has shown to be an extremely
> > helpful resource.
> 
> As far as I could see, these are the same informations as you can find in
> /usr/share/doc/jed/hlp/* and /usr/share/doc/libslang2/sl*
> 
> You can access them directly from jed with ^Hf for functions or ^Hv for
> variables and if you don't know which function you search, you can use ^Ha.
> 
> So what should we do? I'm not really be inclined to add the HTML pages
> from the URL above to the package.

Just make sure that a grep for the document title that is mentioned on
the web turns up with a reference to the *.hlp files, for example by
patching a head line into the *.hlp files themselves or by mentioning
them in the README.Debian.

Greetings
Marc

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