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: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:12:57 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87h9x2f9me.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418314416 19620 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 16:13:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:13:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 17:13:28 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 1Xz6Mo-0005i1-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:13:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz6Mn-0007fs-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz6Mf-0007ZX-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz6MY-000709-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:13:17 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz6MY-000703-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:13:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz6MW-0005UT-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:13:08 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f47667.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.118.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:13:08 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f47667.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:13:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f47667.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:hrLRsqHyvyUZPcG+NFnidHHrJiI= 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:179783 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> GNU has a culture of high-quality documentation. Texinfo is a tool for >> that, providing features like indexes, cross-manual references, >> documentation-oriented markup, and several output media. AFAIK, neither >> AsciiDoc nor “heavier” options like DocBook support all of that. >> >> Info browsers make it easy to browse manuals, search for index terms, >> follow links, including to other manuals. A Web browser cannot achieve >> that because a Web browser is not designed for that. > > > Not by itself, but with a good search engine it could. Not really. Try an incremental full text search through the entire Info file. Try jumping through the references for some index term. The best search engine does not give you a user interface for that kind of stuff. -- David Kastrup