From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:28:04 +0200 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 1020871856 2265 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 15:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , 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 175TP6-0000aQ-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 17:30:56 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175TXH-0007Ug-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 17:39:23 +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 175TOp-0002By-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 11:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175TMz-0001wu-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 11:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g48FSX5p027186; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:28:34 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 8 May 2002 17:15:32 +0300 (IDT)") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:3738 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3738 Eli Zaretskii writes: > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I thought we were talking about extending/changing info.el to support the >> HTML format (or a subset of it). > > Perhaps everybody else was, in which case I apologize for a gross > misunderstanding. > > If extending info.el is the issue, I tend to agree with Kai: implementing > a whole new browser sounds like a large job. Much larger than making it > possible to display inline images in an Info file. But there could be other reasons for switching. Perhaps HTML isn't the best format, I agree with most of the reasons presented here, although I'm sure it could be made to work. But what about DocBook? Doesn't GNOME use it? KDE does, I think. If so, making the Info viewer support DocBook files as well could be useful. All I'm saying is that before someone starts to add features to the Info format (I can think of more things than image support that could be useful when documenting a GUI application), we should look at what other major desktop applications are using. And it isn't the Info format.