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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org
Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:09:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310282009.h9SK95E06713@f7.net> (raw)

rms: I am actually coming to believe that using the raw terminal escape
sequences is as clean as anything else in this particular limited
context.  We specifically want to support what terminals can support.
Aren't the ANSI escape sequences as reasonable a way of specifying that
as anything?

I don't see any particular advantage to writing ^H^[bold^H^] (or <bold>
or whatever) instead of ^[[3m, and the implementation in both info and
M-x info gets much more complex if we introduce a layer of indirection,
which all it really amounts to.

This discussion is telling me that we may want a better output format in
general than Info, but any significant/large extensions are hard to mark
and turn Info into something other than what it was designed to be:
output on a terminal.  So, as far as improving Info itself goes in the
short term, this seems as good as anything.

What do you think?

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-28 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 20:09 Karl Berry [this message]
2003-10-29 12:52 ` terminal escapes in Info files? Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 14:31     ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 17:51       ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:53         ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 21:08         ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 21:18           ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 21:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 15:28     ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-31  2:29     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 17:46 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 12:20   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 16:24       ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 17:29         ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 18:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-30  1:13             ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30  6:10               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 22:06                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-03 12:19                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 16:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 18:40           ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 19:09             ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 20:02               ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-29 20:47                 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 22:58                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-30  2:37                   ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30  2:55                   ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 17:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 18:00         ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-29 18:43           ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30  4:19     ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-30  6:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-31  0:07         ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 16:51 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 17:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 17:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 20:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 16:50 Karl Berry
2003-10-28  1:26 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 10:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 13:48   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 10:42     ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 16:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 19:02     ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:47       ` David Kastrup
2003-10-29 21:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 22:39           ` David Kastrup
2003-10-30  6:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00         ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:01   ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:45     ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 19:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00       ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-26 12:20 Karl Berry
2003-10-26 12:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-26 15:40   ` Alex Schroeder
2003-10-27  7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-27 19:29   ` Eli Zaretskii

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