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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: karl@freefriends.org, dirt@gtk.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
Date: 29 Oct 2003 16:21:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwuaojf97.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud6cgi6ba.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:20:25 +0100)

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> From: Oliver Scholz <epameinondas@gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:20:25 +0100
> 
> The HTML for C-h i would not need to be “real” HTML, just something
> which would look like HTML to a browser.
> [...]
> <!-- [info file] -->
> <html>
> <h1>Defining Functions</h1>
> 
> <p>   We usually give a name to a function when it is first created.  This
> is called "defining a function", and it is done with the `defun'
> special form.</p>
> 
> <p> - Special Form: <b>defun</b> name argument-list body-forms
>      `defun' is the usual way to define new Lisp functions.  It defines
>      the symbol NAME as a function that looks like this:</p>
> 
> <code class="example"><pre>     
>           (lambda ARGUMENT-LIST . BODY-FORMS)
> </pre></code>

IMHO, to get the standalone Info to support such a format, it would
require a major rewrite.  Currently, the display code of the
standalone reader basically just writes the text as-is to the screen;
what you suggest would make its job much harder.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 17:46 terminal escapes in Info files? Karl Berry
2003-10-28 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 12:20   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:21     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-10-29 16:24       ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 17:29         ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 18:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-30  1:13             ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30  6:10               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 22:06                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-03 12:19                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 16:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 18:40           ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 19:09             ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 20:02               ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-29 20:47                 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 22:58                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-30  2:37                   ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30  2:55                   ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 17:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 18:00         ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-29 18:43           ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30  4:19     ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-30  6:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-31  0:07         ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 20:09 Karl Berry
2003-10-29 12:52 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 14:31     ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 17:51       ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:53         ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 21:08         ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 21:18           ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 21:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 15:28     ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-31  2:29     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:51 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 17:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 17:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 20:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 16:50 Karl Berry
2003-10-28  1:26 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 10:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 13:48   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 10:42     ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 16:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 19:02     ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:47       ` David Kastrup
2003-10-29 21:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 22:39           ` David Kastrup
2003-10-30  6:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00         ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:01   ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:45     ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 19:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00       ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-26 12:20 Karl Berry
2003-10-26 12:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-26 15:40   ` Alex Schroeder
2003-10-27  7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-27 19:29   ` Eli Zaretskii

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