where to download emacs manuals as offline html files

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When you press C-h i in Emacs, it shows what's called the top of the INFO tree, and it links to all kinds of manuals: AUCTeX, Org Mode, Emacs, Emacs FAQ, Emacs Lisp Intro, Elisp, ... . Is there a place where I can download all of them at once as html files?

GNU Home page has links to some of them in html format:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html_node.tar.gz

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html_node.tar.gz

But I cannot find a link to a single tar.gz file packing all of them.

Jisang Yoo

Posted 2012-07-09T13:14:06.573

Reputation: 427

Answers

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I didn't find any bundle that contains all manuals. But with this script I was able to convert all info files into html pages.

Just modify the variable INFO_DIRS from info2html.conf and then invoke perl info2html command.

coelhudo

Posted 2012-07-09T13:14:06.573

Reputation: 173

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This wget command seems to work except some problem on Windows

wget --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links --no-parent --accept .html,.htm,.css,.js http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/

I pass --accept to restrict to web-related formats because for example this page has links to manuals in alternate formats.

Jisang Yoo

Posted 2012-07-09T13:14:06.573

Reputation: 427