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 16:23:51 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87y4qefbw8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> 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 1418311480 31532 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 15:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:24:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 16:24:33 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 1Xz5bV-0002O3-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:24:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5bU-0000fm-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5b6-0000Wd-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:24:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5b1-0001HX-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5b1-0001HA-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5b0-000209-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:24:02 +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 16:24:02 +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 16:24:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 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:S/mes7EKlv5mrfuiykKRRbeqoc4= 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:179772 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> "Eric S. Raymond" skribis: >> >>> I have discussed this with RMS and, pending my ability to actually write >>> proper translation tools, we have agreed on asciidoc as a new master >>> format. >> >> That’s a discussion that would need to involve all of GNU, not just >> Emacs circles. I don’t see how that change could happen. > > Not really. Someone has to try it first. Arguably Emacs is the absolutely worst-suited project "to try it first" since Emacs users have the absolutely best Info browser at their hands, and possibly the best Texinfo editing modes, while having pretty poor support for other source formats. -- David Kastrup