Packages documentation

Michael> I'm evaluating Xemacs for my employee, but are having Michael> some problems. I do not know if you can help or redirect Michael> me, but I would be most grateful for any assistance. Did you get an answer to this? I noticed your query but didn't feel I was the best person to answer. However, I haven't seen a response yet, so I'll do what I can. Michael> The trouble is that i'm having a hard time finding Michael> documentation on the update packages. Like strokes and Michael> pc. Can you tell me where to look ? In general, any documentation for packages will be included with the packages themselves. The packages system itself simply attempts to break the package list into somewhat more manageable pieces. Some packages are single applications, quite professionally done with extensive documentation and their own web pages (and even separate development organizations, in cases like `Gnus'). Others are somebody's hobby (`strokes' is one such) and have little documentation. Finally, there are "meta-packages" like `pc' which contain several libraries of varying levels of support which are vaguely related. Also, much documentation is "implicit" in the sense that it is contained in function and variable documentation strings. You can only access this by reading the source or installing and running the package. I believe most of the packages are registered with the finder library, so you can get some information about which ones are related to given keywords using M-x finder-by-keyword. The package index also provides brief descriptions; that's about it. You are of course welcome to ask on the comp.emacs.xemacs newsgroup or (probably somewhat less appropriate in terms of getting help, but bad documentation is of great concern to XEmacs developers) here on xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org. I'm afraid this will be somewhat disappointing to you; if you would do us the favor of replying with a short description of how the documentation could be improved to suit your needs, it would help us to set priorities for documentation work. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."