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 16:49:11 -0600 Message-ID: <85h9x7dqjc.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> <20141206061019.GC14890@thyrsus.com> <87r3wdp0r5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <2e3dd70f-e3b7-4fb7-81c2-72331b5bc520@default> <87d27wofkt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <0e8bcea1-3da3-4d64-807e-d616b8f38a45@default> <878uikoc81.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417992576 22067 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 22:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 22:49:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 23:49:29 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 1Xxkdr-0005PO-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:49:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkdq-0008Qz-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkdj-0008Qr-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkde-00043e-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.230]:15597 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxkde-00043V-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:53441] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 01/93-16169-A69D4845; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:49:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <878uikoc81.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:38:22 +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=yPCof4ZbAAAA:8 a=gKGHuFcW9VG4bCq01D8A:9 a=rEWWee-xAKB7qFSi:21 a=-JUMafh3vDTBeVXz:21 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:179324 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Drew Adams writes: > >>> > Probably what I should do is write an Emacs command that does >>> > all of that from an Info node: grab the URL to that same manual >>> > node on the web. But it's so quick to get it manually that I >>> > haven't bothered, so far. >>> >>> To make that work reliably it might be reasonable to create a >>> Texinfo command to specify the "canonical" web location and have >>> this converted into something in Info that the info reader can >>> recognize and interpret. >>> >>> This should actually even be workable for the standalone Info >>> reader. Of course it relies on the HTML node name generation >>> being the same as the Info reader can readily guess. >> >> I would use such an Emacs command, if available. >> >> Would you like to put this in the form of an enhancement request >> (`M-x report-emacs-bug')? > > Actually, that's ultimately more like a Texinfo enhancement. Without > putting this information into the Info file, it would need to get > provided manually for each of the Info manuals you want to be using that > command on. Right. But as a near-term workaround, there is a fixed url for all of the Gnu/Emacs manuals, so and external command for just those would help a lot. -- -- Stephe