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 22:30:36 -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> <87lhm9ayat.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q8et2r.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 1418787111 32323 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 03:31:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:31:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 04:31:46 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 1Y15Ko-0008I6-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:31:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y15Ko-0007z3-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:31:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y15Ju-0006j3-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y15Jt-0000qt-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y15Jt-0000qn-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y15Js-0007xj-DY; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:30:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <87y4q8et2r.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:180211 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. ]]] > > already opens a help browser on the Emacs documentation. > OK, but "info emacs" is shorter and works on all my platforms (none of > which have gnome-open installed, all of which have info in /usr/bin, The crucial design question is how to represent a cross-reference from one manual to another manual. For the command `info', we can easily have a script to provide whatever interface we like. -- 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.