From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:26:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83bnnh3kt2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87r3wem9g5.fsf@violet.siamics.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417811184 7642 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 20:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 21:26:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzSD-0003rn-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:26:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzSC-0004e6-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzS2-0004dB-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzRx-0005dp-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:59344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwzRw-0005df-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:26:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG400I00L8DGM00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG400HZVLW6EW20@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179008 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:12:01 -0500 > > > Also, the above made me curious of what exact features of the > > HTML presentation are felt missing in Info? (In relation to GNU > > documentation, anyway.) > > The main issue with the Info format is that it's not designed to be > parsed. Even the tiny bit of parsing that's expected (i.e. find menu > entries and hyperlinks) is not very well designed (e.g. restrictions on > the kind of characters that appear in a menu entry). We can switch to some other back-end, if it is better (currently, none of them is, AFAIK). The main issue is not the back-end, it's the source language. Dropping the only language which is well known to all those who write Emacs documentation is simply insane.