From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:31:47 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310282009.h9SK95E06713@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067438099 9127 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 14:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oliver Scholz , karl@freefriends.org, dirt@gtk.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 15:34:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AErPU-00086z-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:34:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AErPT-0000Z9-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:34:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AErOA-0005Rd-AG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:33:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AErND-00056o-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:32:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AErMW-00048K-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:32:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AErMV-00046J-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489EC1769669; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:31:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by sykes.suse.de (Postfix, from userid 597) id 4FA0C115992D3; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:31:48 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Yow: After this, I'm going to BURN some RUBBER!! In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "29 Oct 2003 16:14:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17549 Eli Zaretskii writes: > The improvement, quite obviously, is that the stand-alone Info reader, > which is text-mode based, will be able to display attributes such as > bold, underline, italics, and (on color-capable terminals) colors, and > it will be able to do that without any changes whatsoever in the > reader's own code (at least the part of it that runs on Unix and GNU > systems; DOS and Windows might need some adaptation). Depends on your definition of "without any changes whatsoever". The one from texinfo 4.6 can't. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."