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: Tue, 07 May 2002 21:11:44 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200204302119.g3ULJAP06813@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205031825.g43IP3e00651@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xwuuk6b4q.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205052315.g45NFFE29713@rum.cs.yale.edu> <8632-Tue07May2002212418+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020799329 12546 127.0.0.1 (7 May 2002 19:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 175AXI-0003GF-00 for ; Tue, 07 May 2002 21:22:08 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175Af4-0005Uv-00 for ; Tue, 07 May 2002 21:30:10 +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 175AXD-0003pf-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 15:22:03 -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 175ANi-0001sg-00 for ; Tue, 07 May 2002 15:12:15 -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 g47JC35p019471; Tue, 7 May 2002 21:12:08 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <8632-Tue07May2002212418+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Tue, 07 May 2002 21:24:18 +0300") Original-Lines: 17 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:3678 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3678 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> I agree it would be very useful if documentation could include >> screenshots. > > I think Texinfo lacks some crucial means required to document GUI > programs. There are no directives to describe a sequence of menu > selections, no way to typeset dialog boxes and other simple widgets, > etc. IMHO, this all should be figured out and added to the language > before we could start doing serious work documenting the GUI stuff. It later occured to me that I don't see a good reason for extended the Info format with these capabilities -- there is a perfectly fine format for text with hyperlinks and images called HTML (I hope that doesn't come as a suprise to anyone) and making a viewer in Emacs for texi2html converted manuals similar to Info is IMHO a better solution. Or DocBook? Hm.