From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alper Ersoy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:45:44 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20031029194544.GB7738@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> References: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> <20031028105102.GA7330@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067458763 1730 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 20:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 21:19:19 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 1AEwml-0001XP-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:19:19 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEwml-0003re-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:19:19 +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 1AEwjm-0002J4-Of for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEwIZ-0005HH-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:48:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEwGN-0004HA-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.253.92.129] (helo=dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEwGL-0004Es-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 8122 invoked by uid 500); 29 Oct 2003 19:45:44 -0000 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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:17580 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17580 Richard Stallman: > The downside is, Info becomes an intermediate format rather than > a final one, always asking for an additional step in the browsers. > Display will be totally screwed in older versions[1]. > this is true for both #1 and #2. both would need conversion > for emacs to display them. both would need conversion to > display them properly in stand-alone info, on a non-ansi terminal. Speaking for stand-alone info, there already is stripping functionality that kicks in when viewing man pages without the -R option. Likewise if emacs' browser is capable of viewing man pages, it too should have such functionality already. -- Alper Ersoy