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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-05-06 11:41:43 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-05-06 11:41:43 +0300
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; * etc/TODO (etc/DOC): Update the todo entries.
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@@ -1761,8 +1761,17 @@ apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done this.]
(Obsolete, since gmalloc.c is nowadays only used on MS-DOS.)
** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable
-It might be better to replace it with Lisp, using the byte compiler.
+It might be better to replace with Lisp the part of make-docfile that
+produces the etc/DOC file by scanning *.el files, for example by
+reusing the code in the byte compiler or in autoload.el that already
+scans *.el files.
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00037.html
+https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00235.html
+
+** Eliminate the etc/DOC file altogether
+As an alternative to the previous item, we could try and eliminate the
+DOC file altogether. See
+https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00237.html
** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode
The purpose is to have a mode to capture the common set of operations