From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:39:28 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <87bs7etocv.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031110784 27522 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 03:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mR14-00079T-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:39:42 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27102; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA27085 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA27081 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.98.109]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27077 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ident=steve) by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17mR0w-0001R4-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:39:34 +0900 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "04 Sep 2002 10:18:27 +0900") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management, i686-pc-linux) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.61 X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1367 gmane.emacs.devel:7424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7424 >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> I know that originally (in the days of the original emacs) Miles> there actually were info files, but texinfo hadn't been Miles> invented yet; how did people write info files then (by Miles> hand?!)? Been there, done that. Texinfo is not an improvement, if restricted to generating Info files. (Obviously the retargetable backend is a _huge_ improvement, and I wouldn't go back, although I'd like to go forward from Texinfo to XMLinfo.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py