Emacs Docs: The modern documentation website Emacs deserves
5 points by chiply
5 points by chiply
This is just the info pages but rendered to a docusaurus site? What does it provide over the upstream info HTML pages or just M-x info?
"This is just the info pages but rendered to a docusaurus site" <- pretty much!
"What does it provide over the upstream info HTML pages or just M-x info?":
Couple very small features I appreciate:
A meta feature: I'm really interested in getting more people into Emacs as I'm really passionate about it. One of the biggest turn-offs I hear from folks is that Emacs is arcane or old news. The info manual and raw-ish HTML manual can be daunting for new users (I personally love the Info manual as it's easy to navigate and interactive; I dislike the HTML manual as it lacks Info's navigation features). This modern rendering of Emacs's docs is a vote against this common complaint, so I like that it can be more inviting to beginners or people who are considering adopting Emacs over something with more shine like VSCode.
I also stumbled across this, which is newer, and considerably more feature-ful, but the one in the original post is the sweet spot for me. https://doc.emacsen.de
See reddit announcement for author's commentary on features and discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1qds62d/ann_emacs_docs_an_emacs_documentation_website/