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: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83oargzhyb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> <20141206061019.GC14890@thyrsus.com> <83ppbx1aag.fsf@gnu.org> <20141206110310.GE19750@thyrsus.com> <85y4qkha38.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417894789 17763 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 19:39:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 19:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 20:39:44 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 1XxLCh-0005GL-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:39:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLCh-0005fT-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:39:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40835) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLCO-0005a2-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:39:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLCJ-00033z-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:59298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLCI-00033r-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG600500E6O8E00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:37:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG600JUUEHP7C90@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:37:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85y4qkha38.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:179209 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:06:19 -0600 > > "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > > > Eli Zaretskii : > >> And also because the index-searching commands, without which you are > >> lost in a large manual, don't exist in the Web browsers out there. > > > > This is not at *all* hard to solve. I have written HTML generators > > that produce index links myself in different contexts. > > I'm not sure that "produce index links" and "index-searching commands" > are the same thing They are not, of course. > Eli, could you elaborate on what commands you mean? I meant `i', which is bound to Info-index. > When I browse info, I use M-/ and/or C-s to search the index listings. `C-s' searches are much less efficient than `i' in finding stuff in an Info manual (provided that the manual is well-indexed).