From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Correspondence between web-pages and Info-pages Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420379470 12615 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2015 13:51:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 13:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 04 14:51:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7la7-0007X5-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:50:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7la7-0000wY-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7la4-0000wT-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7la0-0000OB-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:37798) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7lZz-0000O6-V6; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:50:51 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnUPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgwdSWYI1hVq+fIYhBAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQCAQEBAQIBViMFCwsXHRIUGA0WDhyILgnWWQEBAQEGAQEBAQEdkG8HhEgFiwGKHpoQgXiEGSEwgkcBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AnUPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgwdSWYI1hVq+fIYhBAICgSQXAQEBAQEBfIQCAQEBAQIBViMFCwsXHRIUGA0WDhyILgnWWQEBAQEGAQEBAQEdkG8HhEgFiwGKHpoQgXiEGSEwgkcBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="106481859" Original-Received: from 69-165-141-1.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([69.165.141.1]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 04 Jan 2015 08:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7F8B1AE0E0; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 08:50:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:13:26 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180960 Archived-At: > What's the advantage? I don't understand this discussion because it seems it's not talking about the same thing as that for which I started this thread with its new "Subject:". To get us back on track: I'm proposing (and hoping someone can help implement) a change in the format of references from "()" to some other format that would also happen to be a URL that random browsers can use. The new URL format would probably look like where , , and would be constants. I can imagine accepting a few different es, which would be listed in some Info-url-prefixes variable, for the benefit of Info manuals not available on a gnu.org machine since the default/main prefix would probably look like "http://www.gnu.org/...". Tho maybe we could instead simply accept "any" , as long as can be extracted reliably from the URL. Stefan