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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eww
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9mn8cbe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sj0ffojm.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:04:29 +0200")

>> I'm more optimistic about the possibility.
>> Is there a particular thing you think would be difficult or messy?
> Info has a bunch of commands for jumping to the index and searching the
> entire manual, etc.  Reading the HTML version of the manual will never
> be as convenient as reading the info version.

AFAIK, it's easy to make HTML pages which includes most/all the meta
information that Info pages contain.  So you can then provide the "bunch
of commands" without much trouble.

>> Maybe there is a way to do it as a derived mode so that it doesn't
>> conflict too much with the web-browsing aspect of eww.
> Or just continue to use info, which is really good at this sort of
> thing.  :-)

Info has serious shortcomings which are hard to circumvent.  E.g. it's
pre-formatted.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 185+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-16 14:53 eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-16 15:21 ` eww Adam Sjøgren
2013-06-16 15:29   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-16 15:46     ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-16 17:01       ` eww Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-16 17:06         ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-17 21:00           ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-17 21:13             ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 21:30               ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-17 22:04                 ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-17 22:39                   ` eww Rasmus
2013-06-17 22:43                     ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-17 23:35             ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-18 12:09             ` eww Thomas Fitzsimmons
2013-06-18 14:57               ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 17:02                 ` eww Thomas Fitzsimmons
2013-06-19  8:59                   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 17:21               ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-19  6:53                 ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18  2:19 ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 11:23   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 14:34     ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 15:01       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 15:43         ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 14:39     ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 15:14       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 15:48         ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 17:40           ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19  1:14             ` eww Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-19  6:58             ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 14:50               ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-18 18:04           ` eww Karl Fogel
2013-06-18 18:29             ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19  7:13               ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19  8:43                 ` eww Andreas Schwab
2013-06-19  9:03                   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19  9:13                     ` eww Andreas Schwab
2013-06-19 12:27                 ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19 13:50                   ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19 14:02                   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-21 14:03                     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-25 19:57                       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 14:55                 ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19 19:46                   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 19:59                     ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19 20:13                       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 22:12                       ` eww Johan Bockgård
2013-06-19 20:22                     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-18 19:00           ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-18 20:19             ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-18 21:37               ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-18 23:21                 ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19  4:15                   ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19  7:22               ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 10:38               ` eww Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-19 12:35                 ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-20  7:17                   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 20:10                     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-21  6:58                       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-28 15:12                         ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-06 15:17                           ` eww Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-25 23:11                       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-26  6:49                         ` eww Daimrod
2013-06-26 11:55                           ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19  4:21           ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-19  7:25             ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 22:45               ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-20  9:01                 ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-01 22:48                   ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-02  6:03                     ` eww Thierry Volpiatto
2013-07-06 15:19                     ` eww Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-06 22:32                       ` eww Xue Fuqiao
2013-07-06 22:57                         ` eww Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-08 12:34                       ` eww Ted Zlatanov
2013-07-08 12:55                         ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19  8:21             ` eww chad
2013-06-19 12:32               ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19 20:55               ` eww Juri Linkov
2013-06-19 21:16                 ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-19 13:50           ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 16:17         ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 16:45           ` eww Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-18 19:06           ` eww Steinar Bang
2013-06-19  6:50           ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 17:13             ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-19 19:31               ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 19:07     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-18 11:31   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 14:42     ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 15:04       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 19:13         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-06-18 19:17           ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-18 20:21             ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-18 23:34               ` eww James Cloos
2013-06-19  2:50               ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19  4:49                 ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19  8:17               ` eww Stephen Leake
2013-06-18 23:03             ` eww Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-18 23:56               ` eww Paul Eggert
2013-06-19  7:52                 ` eww Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-19 15:03                   ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-19  3:03               ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-18 19:27           ` eww Tom Tromey
2013-06-18 23:40     ` eww Juri Linkov
2013-06-19  0:51       ` eww Stefan Monnier
2013-06-19 10:34         ` eww Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-19  7:34       ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 22:52         ` eww Juri Linkov
2013-06-21  6:56           ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 14:06     ` eww Drew Adams
2013-06-19 15:36       ` eww Jambunathan K
2013-06-20  4:10         ` eww Richard Stallman
2013-06-20  4:28           ` eww Paul Eggert
2013-06-20  7:18           ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 11:32 ` eww joakim
2013-06-18 12:16   ` eww Andreas Schwab
2013-06-18 13:57   ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18 14:01     ` eww joakim
2013-06-19 10:21 ` eww Ivan Kanis
2013-06-19 11:52   ` eww Steinar Bang
2013-06-19 12:14   ` eww Ivan Kanis
2013-08-01 11:59 ` eww John Williams
2013-08-02  0:20   ` eww John Williams
2013-08-02  0:27     ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02  0:46       ` eww John Williams
2013-08-02 12:27         ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02 21:39           ` eww John Williams
2013-08-03 11:08             ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-04  3:59               ` eww John Williams
2013-08-05  2:10                 ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05  3:29                   ` eww John Williams
2013-08-07  0:46                   ` eww John Williams
2013-08-07  1:24                     ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-02 19:48       ` eww Richard Stallman
2013-08-03 11:30         ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-12 13:46 eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 13:50 ` eww Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-13 11:20   ` eww Bastien
2014-01-13 17:44     ` eww Davis Herring
2014-01-13 22:19       ` eww Bastien
2014-01-13 19:36     ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-13 22:29       ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14 17:06         ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-14 20:22           ` eww Bastien
2014-01-15 12:29             ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-13 19:36     ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-13 22:25       ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14  0:00         ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14  9:43           ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14 11:09             ` eww Nicolas Richard
2014-01-14 16:39               ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14 16:57                 ` eww Nicolas Richard
2014-01-14 18:21                   ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14 21:31                     ` eww Nicolas Richard
2014-01-14 22:36                       ` eww Bastien
2014-01-15 12:29                     ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-15 14:07                       ` eww Andreas Schwab
2014-01-15 16:10                         ` eww Nicolas Richard
2014-01-16 17:56                           ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-16 18:19                             ` eww Andreas Schwab
2014-01-17 14:10                               ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-17 15:04                                 ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 15:28                                   ` eww Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-17 16:04                                     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-18 12:33                                   ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-19  2:12                                     ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-19 11:35                                       ` eww Francesco Potortì
2014-01-20  9:14                                       ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-17 15:06                                 ` eww Andreas Schwab
2014-01-17 15:23                                 ` eww Francesco Potortì
2014-01-17 13:06                             ` eww Bastien
2014-01-17 14:22                               ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 14:59                                 ` eww Bastien
2014-01-18  6:12                               ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-16 17:57                         ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-14 17:58             ` eww Stefan Monnier
2014-01-14 18:22               ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14 17:06           ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-13 22:18     ` eww Bastien
2014-01-14  0:45       ` eww Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-13 15:41   ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-13 18:05     ` eww Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-14 17:05       ` eww Richard Stallman
2014-01-14 19:39         ` eww Bastien
2014-01-15 12:29           ` eww Richard Stallman

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