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 09:35:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83vblp1b9s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417851335 4586 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 07:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 07:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, cwebber@dustycloud.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 08:35:28 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 1Xx9tn-0001zs-KZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 08:35:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9tn-0000Z6-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 02:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9tL-0000Tk-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 02:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9tG-0003U2-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 02:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:59868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9tG-0003TJ-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 02:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG500300G9ZGA00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:33:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG500KVAH09CA80@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:33:45 +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: 80.179.55.182 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:179101 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:28:44 -0500 > Cc: Christopher Allan Webber , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I can't help point out that there are 2 issues: the source format. > And the doc-viewer (which may or may not require translation of the > source format to some other format). > > Until there is a documentation viewer available in Elisp that is almost > as good as Info-mode while being prettier, the "online doc" format will > have to stay as Info, and as long as we stick with Info, then I don't > see a strong motivation to change the source format (even if it will > give us wagon loads of doc-contributors, there'd be a fairly large > amount of work in such a conversion). Not surprisingly, I agree.