From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: 29 Oct 2003 13:09:05 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067452216 15375 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 18:30:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:30:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 19:30:14 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 1AEv5C-00027T-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:30:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEv5C-0002d8-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:30:14 +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 1AEv0x-0003bH-UQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:25:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEulz-0002EJ-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEulB-0001Lc-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEukn-0000v9-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9TI95nR025778; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CEBC03C63E; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:09:05 -0500 (EST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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:17564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17564 > Web browsers waste effort; you cannot navigate through HTML documents > quickly and easily as you can with Info. HTML is one of the poorer > designs. There is no question that existing web browsers suck and that the Info viewer is better. Similarly, there is no question that TeXinfo is much superior to HTML to write documentation. But I don't see why the Info format is superior to the HTML markup language, other than indirectly in terms of the programs currently available that make use of them. Could you expand a little? Stefan