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: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:00:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> <20031028105102.GA7330@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> <20031029194544.GB7738@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067537511 24919 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 18:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 19:11:49 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 1AFHGu-0006OI-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:11:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFHGu-0006Eb-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:11:48 +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 1AFHCs-00063F-GQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:07:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFHBZ-00061g-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AFHB3-0005v4-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:06:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFHB3-0005uu-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:05:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AFH5l-0006nT-Sj; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:00:17 -0500 Original-To: Alper Ersoy In-reply-to: <20031029194544.GB7738@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> (message from Alper Ersoy on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:45:44 +0200) 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:17620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17620 Likewise if emacs' browser is capable of viewing man pages, it too should have such functionality already. yes, people say that Emacs Lisp code to display those escape sequences exists. that would reduce the amount of work for implementing this change, but wouldn't alter the fact that Info won't handle these sequences without a change. I will say yes to something like this only if it uses a cleaner design. not with terminal escape sequences. That is my final decision.