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: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:16:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420661937 18326 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2015 20:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 20:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kelly@prtime.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 21:18:50 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 1Y8x2v-0008U9-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:17:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8x2v-0002kG-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57947) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8x2h-0002k0-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8x2e-0002Os-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:53190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8x2e-0002Og-IV; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E0D85136; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:17:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3580D1E5B94; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:16:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16445B4102; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:16:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:26:38 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:181032 Archived-At: > or in email messages, or in web-pages, or in a bookmark, ... > Up till now, we have no way to write a link to an Info manual > in such contexts. Actually, we kind of do with a syntax like (info "()"), which is recognized at least in docstrings and is used in email messages. > My point is that anything along these lines will be a step up from > what we have now, so we need not be perfectionist about it. > Whatever is easy to do will be an advance. Right. But it impacts the current in-manual (and cross-manual) syntax in favor of the new syntax, so it does require some care. Stefan