From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: 29 Oct 2003 16:21:56 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067437763 8296 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 14:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, dirt@gtk.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 15:29:20 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 1AErK4-0007ib-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:29:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AErK4-0000Vi-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:29:20 +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 1AErGJ-0008TP-8g for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AErBf-0006LN-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:20:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AErB7-0005Ua-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AErB1-00059e-2i; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:19:59 -0500 Original-To: Oliver Scholz In-reply-to: (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:20:25 +0100) 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:17548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17548 > From: Oliver Scholz > 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. > [...] > > >

Defining Functions

> >

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.

> >

- Special Form: defun 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:

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>           (lambda ARGUMENT-LIST . BODY-FORMS)
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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.