From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:10:11 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87bnn6nwzg.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d27oliue.fsf@gnu.org> <87vblfobxx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418566251 24681 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2014 14:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:10:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 15:10:46 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 1Y09si-0005f2-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y09si-0003ji-4E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:10:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y09sX-0003jV-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:10:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y09sR-0005Nb-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y09sQ-0005NT-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y09sM-0004w9-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from p54b7e1b4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.183.225.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from Stromeko by p54b7e1b4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:10:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54b7e1b4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C2kZQZ4mkkF9/LA1okfFsRgiuiw= 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:180075 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> > Can we define a new type of URL to refer to a locally-installed >>> > HTML-Info manual? > > I don't think that's interesting. A more interesting URL is one that > works both as a reference to locally-installed manuals and as > a reference to some remote manual (when not available locally). The right solution is still an URI scheme for info documentation and a resolver that prefers locally installed documentation over the canonical and/or mirror sources on the network. That implementation could generally cache documents from the net or install such documentation locally when requested by the user. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves