From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: 04 Sep 2002 10:18:27 +0900 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031102255 12773 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 01:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mOnV-0003Js-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 03:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA21059; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA21045 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA21041 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.202]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA21037 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g841Ic405315; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:18:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g841Icg18953; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:18:38 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g841IZe04412; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:18:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g841IRs24028; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:18:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5848136F4; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:18:27 +0900 (JST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1362 gmane.emacs.devel:7417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7417 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > Ugh! What's the 'in' thing now? Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info? > > The GNU Project centered on Texinfo, which is a markup language that > enables you to generate from a single source file, output files for: I think this is a terminology problem; most of the time when someone says `write an info file', they really _mean_ `write a texinfo file'. Because info files are never written in any other way, people often seem to treat the terms as interchangeable. I know that originally (in the days of the original emacs) there actually were info files, but texinfo hadn't been invented yet; how did people write info files then (by hand?!)? -Miles -- I have seen the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo