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: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:40:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <81A0F722-D302-4298-B506-55A3FA8DC44B@gmail.com> <5FQ2dQBTuvmn9epBBJwjkqA1D9qGmfVNRcstoLb4rYx@local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420252845 32242 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2015 02:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 02:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kelly Dean , yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 03 03:40:37 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 1Y7Edp-00046o-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Edo-000168-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Edi-00013d-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Ede-0005XT-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:42767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Ede-0005X8-6U; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:40:26 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEBARyQbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEBARyQbweESAWLAaQugXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="104668923" 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; 02 Jan 2015 21:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AD133AE139; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 21:40:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:24:38 -0500") 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:180934 Archived-At: >> Suppose Emacs gets an integrated browser, that displays both HTML >> pages and Info pages. Like Firefox is an integrated browser for >> HTML and PDF. In the latter case, if some document is available in >> both versions, you can often pick which one you want by just >> swapping .html vs. .pdf at the end of the URL. If both the >> HTML and PDF versions of a page were named foo (or even worse, >> both were named foo.html ), how would you pick which one to >> request from the server? > Does this problem need to be solved? No it doesn't. And the reason has nothing to do with the format. The reason is that we just want to define URLs which are 100% equivalent in meaning to "()". The format associated is 100% unrelated. I repeat: this discussion of using URL names for manual node references has nothing to do with the format of those manuals. Stefan