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: 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281651.h9SGpXX06600@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067361901 28863 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 17:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 18:24:59 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 1AEXaV-0002QB-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:24:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEXaU-0006Mv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:24:59 +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 1AEXHU-0006pl-L1 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXEZ-0005fh-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXCq-00054R-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXCH-0004rw-GO; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:59:57 -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 h9SGxonR020216; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 862203C63E; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500 (EST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-Reply-To: <200310281651.h9SGpXX06600@f7.net> Original-Lines: 12 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:17507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17507 > Why not HTML ? There's already an HTML backend in makeinfo, so no > change is needed there. > HTML is possible, but people who want that can already use it, right? > The question is how or whether to improve Info format. Sorry, I thought the question was how to improve the `info' program and the `M-x info' command. Why do people want to improve the Info format, exactly? Stefan