From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 04:20:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87r3wem9g5.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <83bnnh3kt2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417836110 30665 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 03:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 03:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , Emacs-Devel devel To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 04:21:43 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 1Xx5wE-0003gR-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:21:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx5wE-0007Qz-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx5vu-0007QG-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx5vq-0003fF-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::235]:63368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx5vl-0003en-Cz; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id r20so438112wiv.2 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:21:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=8WVITujezRTCENAotj9ZENJDuyuPIWMvwL8JZColi74=; b=iI8IQ/aPo1OWicsAKFivIpIarrP+BSy2OXfsaUhIGx8I4R6ujVyzr9/pG3by6qZWbf I8HamKVqwcLszrIxfZsHXfFcMKay9CDo6/irCB9Zi+wjjPoS5Fc3koRG/EUEEUJ+BMIv /Is9N7X3QXWOH9DV4QMLCSzP7xEDdIsgqBGQG9W3qOG9OHXYhb2EkFiZMxF13bLQrYfe u8C79j6QcRFq/4DQVkRxJMOMoxQRK8VwZI7TQsGKNorpHOmqq8ScAg4RVcq1MoAcoEfh SVVSNtDlZvOc1azTrUxF7lENKDU7I32FUNV4s8PMwpyQaD4cgEGtHdBWnKf2B8ssz2kY a4QA== X-Received: by 10.181.12.38 with SMTP id en6mr8816722wid.5.1417836071929; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:21:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.93.228 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:20:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::235 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:179082 Archived-At: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Dropping the only language which is well known to >> all those who write Emacs documentation is simply insane. > > Yes. Texinfo isn't the best language in the world, but you can make > drive-by contributors just write plain text, and it's OK. And > maintainers can mark up things properly. Drive-by contributors could perhaps write in org-mode? That is pretty easy to learn. (And conversion to texinfo is probably easy, or already there.)