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: HTML-Info design Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbl2nqxl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wqimf0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q1fekv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fvc858c6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioh4nf8k.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83y4pzptpx.fsf@gnu.org> <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419360521 32254 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 18:48:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 19:48:32 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 1Y3UVS-00009w-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:48:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45954 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3UVS-0007bA-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3UVK-0007at-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3UVG-0000qy-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3UVF-0000qp-MF; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:48:17 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NH100500TDJVC00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:48:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NH100573TKFDW80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:48:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:180596 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:56 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > How can we know that without even trying to implement a substantial > > subset of what Info does? Your current implementation is 300-line > > long; if the addition of at least the basic Info features will take it > > to 3000, then what did we gain? > > The reasons I am interested in HTML-Info are > > 1. It will be readable (though without full Info functionality) > in ordinary browsers. > > 2. It will be able to represent many things that Info can't. No disagreement here. The question that bothers me if it can support the important features we have now in our Info reader. > If it needs a 3000-line program to work with full Info functionality, > that's not so big after all. I didn't say it's big, just that its size won't be an advantage compared to info.el.