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: 28 Oct 2003 19:16:13 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281651.h9SGpXX06600@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067361553 27841 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 17:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dirt@gtk.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 18:19:08 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 1AEXUq-0001si-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:19:08 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEXUq-0006IC-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:19:08 +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 1AEXS3-0000iR-4T for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:16:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXQk-0000aE-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXQD-0000Mf-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEXQC-0000JE-8f; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:14:20 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500) 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:17506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17506 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500 > > 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? Because it allows features such as index search that are not available in HTML, and yet doesn't support colors, bold/italics, and other text attributes that existing text-mode terminals can display. For details, see this message (which started this thread): http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-10/msg00621.html