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 16:57:24 +0300 (IDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205081343.g48Dhi904281@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020868069 18670 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 14:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson , ttn@glug.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.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 175SQ1-0004r1-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 16:27:49 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175SYA-00061H-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 16:36:15 +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 175S0P-0002Af-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 10:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175Ryh-000206-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 09:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25786; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:57:24 +0300 (IDT) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <200205081343.g48Dhi904281@rum.cs.yale.edu> 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:3732 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3732 On Wed, 8 May 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote: > As far as I can tell, there's nothing very specific in the info > format for indices. There's just a convention that the top node > should have one or more entries with names like "Foo Index" and that > those subnodes should be made up of just one large menu of xrefs. > The same could be done for HTML, I'm sure. "makeinfo --html" already creates the index nodes. However, to use the indices efficiently (as opposed to just as large menus with links), you need the browser to support the equivalent of Info-index, Info-index-next, etc. Otherwise, looking up a subject becomes a much more tedious process, especially if the manual has several large indices (e.g., the Emacs manual). Is there any browser that supports such feature? I'm not aware of such a browser. > What bothers me more is that HTML seems much less amenable to > regexp-searching than the info format and if we can't use regexp-searching > that means we need to do real parsing and that's going to be *much* slower. That, too, makes HTML less useful for reference-style use of a manual.