From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:07:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d27oliue.fsf@gnu.org> <87vblfobxx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418548107 27708 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2014 09:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 10:08:22 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 1Y05A5-0001J8-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y05A4-0004Oc-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y059q-000466-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y059k-0000CF-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y059k-0000C5-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y059c-0007A3-3X; Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:07:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vblfobxx.fsf@gnu.org> (ludo@gnu.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180060 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Can we define a new type of URL to refer to a locally-installed > > HTML-Info manual? > That's a possibility (ISTR that KDE's browser supported info://), but > most browsers won't support it out of the box. That is not an important obstacle. This is still a solution. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.