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 14:02:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067455960 25870 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 19:32:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 20:32:37 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 1AEw3Z-0006fu-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:32:37 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEw3Z-0003FJ-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:32:37 +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 1AEw3Q-0005Vy-TH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvtR-0001U1-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvgT-0006KI-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvfM-0005nv-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:07:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AEvaD-0004SQ-Ag; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:02:17 -0500 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-reply-to: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) 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:17575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17575 Since Info is inherently limited to what can be displayed on a terminal, it seems like ANSI escape sequences are as reasonable specification of the capabilities as anything else? Info files can be displayed under X and we need not assume they are limited to a narrow range of display features forever. But even if we never support anything beyond what terminal escape sequences can do, we still should not use them. There is nothing particularly easy about converting terminal escape sequences into text properties for emacs to display.