From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:33:01 +0300 (IDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020864989 12454 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 13:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175RcK-0003El-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 15:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175RkT-0004qm-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 15:44:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175Rc9-0007La-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 09:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175RbN-0007IK-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 09:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25408; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:33:02 +0300 (IDT) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3720 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3720 On Wed, 8 May 2002, Per Abrahamsen wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Using HTML is IMHO a much worse solution, since HTML doesn't support > > features like index searches without which a manual cannot be easily > > used as a reference. > > Is index search a file format feature? It's mainly a browser feature, I think. > I'd say that a > > > > in the pages generated by makeinfo should do the trick, together with > an automatic generation of an suitable formatted foo-index.html file. I don't think I understand, sorry for being dense. Can you show an example of HTML using this, including what should be in foo-index.html, and also explain how would that make it possible to do something similar to the Info command "i foo RET"?