From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:46:02 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067363476 373 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 17:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 18:51:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEXzs-0004Vy-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:51:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEXzs-0006b1-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:51:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXzW-00004v-9s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXz8-0008W8-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXvq-0007CC-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:47:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXuu-0005bh-Vz; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id h9SHk2915693; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:46:02 -0500 Original-To: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17508 Sorry, I thought the question was how to improve the `info' program and the `M-x info' command. Yes, sure. What are you saying? If you're proposing that, say, info become an alias for lynx and M-x info become an alias for w3-whatever, well, fine, but that doesn't really address the issue. Why do people want to improve the Info format, exactly? Because, believe it or not, some people still use it, there's a lot of history there, and just eradicating Info and replacing it with HTML would not go over well. Eliz>features such as index search that are not available in HTML Well, since we're hypothetically talking about M-x info, I could imagine it reading the HTML from a Texinfo document and knowing about the index, etc. yet doesn't support colors, bold/italics, and other text attributes that existing text-mode terminals can display. ... (Whether Emacs is capable of using any of that stuff on a text terminal, I don't know.)