From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:02:06 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> <20031028105102.GA7330@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067455735 25297 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 19:28:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 20:28:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEvzv-0006Pc-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:28:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEvzv-0003Aw-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:28:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvwH-0002o8-Su for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvg4-00065d-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvfL-0005nQ-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvfG-0005fT-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AEva2-0004RE-Q6; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:02:06 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 28 Oct 2003 11:19:27 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17570 Is HTML adequate for the job of replacing info format? Yes, it does something vaguely similar, but that does not mean the answer is yes. Does the HTML output produced by makeinfo give just as good results in a browser as info files do in the info readers? Can we support *all* the features of info just as well as we do now? One other obstacle to using HTML instead of info format is that emacs does not contain a browser at present. We have considered for years the idea of installing the W3 package into Emacs, but (from what I recall) it does not work as well as ordinary browsers. So I hesitate to replace info.el with W3.