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: Correspondence between web-pages and Info-pages Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420658859 1067 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2015 19:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 19:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kelly@prtime.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 20:27:32 2015 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 1Y8wFj-0006t8-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:26:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8wFj-0006nI-2S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8wFb-0006n0-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8wFb-0000Lg-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8wFb-0000Lc-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8wFa-00022A-6L; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:38 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:46:16 -0500) 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:181029 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. ]]] > > Aren't we talking about links in other Info manuals? > No, I'm talking about the general case of a reference which can appear > cross-manuals, That's the case I was discussing, and ../ should work there. or in email messages, or in web-pages, or in a bookmark, ... Up till now, we have no way to write a link to an Info manual in such contexts. The only place we support them is in other Info files. So you're proposing a new feature. I agree it would be nice to have. My point is that anything along these lines will be a step up from what we have now, so we need not be perfectionist about it. Whatever is easy to do will be an advance. -- 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.