From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:34:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6137-Tue28Oct2003223413+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200310281651.h9SGpXX06600@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067373863 27222 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 20:44:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dirt@gtk.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 21:44:21 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 1AEahQ-0000D1-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:44:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEahQ-00080A-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:44:20 +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 1AEah2-00045E-NO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:43:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEaeL-0002qB-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEadY-00022a-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEadY-000202-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-207-44.inter.net.il [80.230.207.44]) by legolas.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id APR64780; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:39:38 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 28 Oct 2003 12:56:31 -0500) 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:17517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17517 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 28 Oct 2003 12:56:31 -0500 > > > Because it allows features such as index search that are not > > available in HTML, > > Huh? Why don't the HTML pages generated by makeinfo allow index search? Because HTML browsers don't know about Info indices. > Existing HTML browsers suck, but that doesn't mean we can't use the HTML > markup with a specially designed Info viewer (which might not even need to > understand 100% of HTML). We were talking about existing readers, perhaps modified a bit, not about inventing a new reader. > This does not answer my question: why enhance the Info format > rather than change the readers (to use the HTML output of makeinfo > rather than the Info output) ? Because, as Karl pointed out, we already have that.