From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:50:40 -0600 Message-ID: <85d27vdqgv.fsf@stephe-leake.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> <874mt8o8qz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417992665 23227 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 22:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 22:51:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 23:50:58 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 1XxkfJ-0006A6-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:50:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxkfJ-0000Vr-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:50:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxkfB-0000Va-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:50:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkf6-0005BL-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.230]:22456 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkf6-0005B9-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:53442] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id C6/05-16169-3C9D4845; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:50:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: <874mt8o8qz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:53:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.142:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=W762VHmk c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=Nby5tkL7AAAA:8 a=ISSwQ-xKSqL_JF1bkv0A:9 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.73.230 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:179325 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Stephen Leake writes: > >> "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; Eli, could you elaborate on what commands you mean? >> >> When I browse info, I use M-/ and/or C-s to search the index listings. > > Seriously? Try just i for a change. That's a whole different class of > useful. Indeed it is. There are only a million key bindings in Emacs; I'm continually surprised to learn that I don't know them all yet :). -- -- Stephe