From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:05:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205081405.g48E5fI04663@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020866767 16353 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 14:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Simon Josefsson , ttn@glug.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175S51-0004Fc-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 16:06:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175SDA-0005XQ-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 16:14:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175S52-0002T5-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 10:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175S4h-0002Ry-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 10:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g48E5fI04663; Wed, 8 May 2002 10:05:41 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3728 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3728 > > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, there's nothing very specific in the info > > format for indices. There's just a convention that the top node > > should have one or more entries with names like "Foo Index" and that > > those subnodes should be made up of just one large menu of xrefs. > > The same could be done for HTML, I'm sure. > > "makeinfo --html" already creates the index nodes. > > However, to use the indices efficiently (as opposed to just as large > menus with links), you need the browser to support the equivalent > of Info-index, Info-index-next, etc. Otherwise, looking up a subject > becomes a much more tedious process, especially if the manual has several > large indices (e.g., the Emacs manual). > > Is there any browser that supports such feature? I'm not aware of such a > browser. I thought we were talking about extending/changing info.el to support the HTML format (or a subset of it). Stefan