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: HTML-Info design Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wqimf0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q1fekv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fvc858c6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioh4nf8k.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83y4pzptpx.fsf@gnu.org> <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.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 1419348788 5276 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 15:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 16:33:03 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 1Y3RSH-0000vj-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:33:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RSG-0002Pl-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:33:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RSD-0002Pg-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RSC-0004WC-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RSC-0004W8-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3RSC-0001AS-4V; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:32:56 -0500 In-reply-to: <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:53:04 +0200) 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:180565 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. ]]] > How can we know that without even trying to implement a substantial > subset of what Info does? Your current implementation is 300-line > long; if the addition of at least the basic Info features will take it > to 3000, then what did we gain? The reasons I am interested in HTML-Info are 1. It will be readable (though without full Info functionality) in ordinary browsers. 2. It will be able to represent many things that Info can't. If it needs a 3000-line program to work with full Info functionality, that's not so big after all. -- 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.