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 13:27:24 -0600 Message-ID: <87zjun43tv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87bo73a39w.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371583656 21341 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 19:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 21:27:36 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 1Up1Z1-0001ng-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:27:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1Z1-0003k2-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1Yv-0003g4-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1Yu-0007s3-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:5607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1Yt-0007ry-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IJRRgk007890 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-102.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.102]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IJROP1015067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:25 -0400 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 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:160600 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83375 Archived-At: >> Info has a bunch of commands for jumping to the index and searching the >> entire manual, etc. Reading the HTML version of the manual will never >> be as convenient as reading the info version. Stefan> AFAIK, it's easy to make HTML pages which includes most/all the meta Stefan> information that Info pages contain. So you can then provide the "bunch Stefan> of commands" without much trouble. makeinfo (I'm looking at the output of makeinfo 5.0) already supplies a link to the index, like: This seems to be in every node. So I think implementing "i" isn't too bad. makeinfo also lets us know if the node has a menu: So "m" and the digit arguments seem doable. Searching seems a bit trickier. I didn't look at issues if the HTML is in a single file rather than a file per node. I also didn't look at info-lookup-symbol. Though I note that at least the Gtk manuals use some similar markup, so moving to HTML would potentially broaden the documentation conveniently available to Emacs users. Tom