From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:47:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201011035127.7723.3256@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201011035128.E3FD320667@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87k0vxquvo.fsf@gnus.org> <87eem2ey3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87a6wp1m4p.fsf@gnus.org> <87k0vt5jol.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <875z7c0z1d.fsf@gnus.org> <87v9f7coc2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39574"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 05:48:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kUM9o-000ABP-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:48:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40298 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUM9n-0006Gb-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUM8X-0004zK-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUM8X-0006iT-JP; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kUM8W-000582-K3; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:47:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9f7coc2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:12:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258088 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. ]]] > For example, with a dynamically generated Info manual with groups of functions > and the addressing scheme such as (info "(shortdoc) regexp functions"), > would the users of the standalone Info reader expect that visiting > the same Info location should produce the same documentation to them > in the standalone Info reader? I think it ought to work for that if possible. Why can't the dynamically generated manual be written into Info files which are then accessible in all the usual ways? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)