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: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:13 -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> <87r3w2fgux.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <871to1f69o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418707248 9784 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2014 05:20:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, ludo@gnu.org, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 06:20:41 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 1Y0kYo-0005AP-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0kYo-000730-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0kYR-00072Q-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0kYQ-0006PU-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0kYQ-0006PQ-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0kYP-0008TF-JX; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:20:13 -0500 In-reply-to: <871to1f69o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.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:180192 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. ]]] > > We want to write something short such as `info:emacs' to refer to the > > Emacs manual. > Why? To make references from one HTML-Info manual to another HTML-Info manual work properly, searching for the other manual in the right way. I don't think either the browser maintainers or the IETF will be > particularly interested in an info: scheme since it's really a > document format rather than a transport. It has nothing to do with the file format. These files will be HTML. Rather, it refers to a way of searching for a file (usually local, but maybe not always). Anyway, we don't depend on their approval. -- 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.