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@sysedit@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

When you read documentation inside emacs, what is your prefered format?
For me it is in this order:
info, man, epub (nov.el), devdocs.

Are there any texinfo pages you don't read in info format because you need images? I think info pages don't contain images even when the source texinfo file has them (happy to be proved wrong).

Right now I am also trying to solve searching through my epub files for information. Best I've found so far was bookmarks+ and maybe citar.

#emacs #documentation

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Andrew Wigglesworth
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@ecadre@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@sysedit It's really down to what you are reading documentation on.

Bigger projects related to GNU Emacs will usually use Info, and that's my preferred way.

However, some things don't give you much of a choice and you're down to some README file in Markdown, or web pages.

But my documentation preference list in Emacs would start with Info, go through man and end up with markdown (whatever that is these days).

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