Hello Vadim,
> You already discovered reason for describe misbehaviour under clisp
> a while ago -- DOS end-of-lines in *.texi files (Input.es.texi and
> Rules.es.texi). I committed the fix for 5.9.3 and HEAD
Terrific --- that seems to correct the describe problem.
Mario, can you retest and let us know how it goes?
About reworking the internals of cl-info,
> Very good idea! To have some pre-build index table instead of
> searching whole *.info each time again and again is the only
> right way to go. This becomes more and more important since
> volume of Maxima documentation grows. All known to me help
> systems has some kind of inex facilities -- Windows
> help file, Mathematica on-line documentation system etc.
Let's plan to work on this post-5.9.3 release.
best,
Robert