From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents. Date: 25 Nov 2003 20:05:15 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad6kb4ec.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <8765hcf7q8.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87brr3dnwr.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <3FC3A11D.8040408@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069790977 1464 80.91.224.253 (25 Nov 2003 20:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 21:09:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOjV8-0002dp-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:09:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOjV8-0005Sk-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:09:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOkPy-0003Tp-CJ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOkPs-0003So-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOkPL-0003I1-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.34.135.17] (helo=tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOkPL-0003HX-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:07:39 -0500 Original-Received: from host217-34-135-22.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.34.135.22] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOjR4-0003u3-00; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:05:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk ident=nferrier) by kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOjQy-0006w8-00; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:05:16 +0000 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <3FC3A11D.8040408@yahoo.com> Original-Lines: 23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18116 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18116 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Nic Ferrier wrote: > > > It's an additional format to solve the specific problem of reading > > documentation that you don't happen to have on your local machine. > > Why can't ange-ftp, tramp, or http-get be used to retrieve remote Info > files for local browsing within Emacs? Because it would take a lot of work to alter the info reader to make that happen. And users would then be tied to emacs for doing it... The current proposal offers at least as much flexibility as current Info publishing systems: - it will be available to browsers - it will therefore be available to emacs - it will also therefore be available on the console (links) Nic