From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: eww Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:51 -0600 Message-ID: <87bo73a39w.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371566590 19612 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 14:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 16:43:10 2013 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 1Uox7c-0005eQ-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uox7c-00021X-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uox7Y-00020X-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uox7W-0003SV-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uox7W-0003SQ-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IEgrkn008348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-102.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.102]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IEgqQi015993 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:52 -0400 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:31:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:160572 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83365 Archived-At: Tom> I'm interested in the possibility of replacing info with html+eww. Lars> As for this, that's not very realistic. info has a ton of commands Lars> specially suited for navigating manuals, and does a really good job. Lars> eww is a general web browser, and trying to shoe-horn all the missing Lars> info functionality into it would be a mess, I think. I'm more optimistic about the possibility. Is there a particular thing you think would be difficult or messy? Maybe there is a way to do it as a derived mode so that it doesn't conflict too much with the web-browsing aspect of eww. Tom