From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:53:24 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <874mt8o8qz.fsf@fencepost.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417895650 30874 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 19:54:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 19:54:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 20:54:03 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 1XxLQX-0003Q6-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:54:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLQW-0007Yu-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLQF-0007Yb-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLQA-00086x-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLQA-00086p-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxLQ7-0003DC-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:53:35 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4fd17.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.253.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:53:35 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4fd17.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:53:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4fd17.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d6Pqt0qsFzkHbqazGeo7qsWQdk0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:179211 Archived-At: 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. -- David Kastrup