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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org, karl@freefriends.org
Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
Date: 29 Oct 2003 16:14:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uy8v4jfln.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uekwwfboo.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:52:39 +0100)

> From: Oliver Scholz <epameinondas@gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:52:39 +0100
> 
> With all due respect, I don't see an improvement in using ANSI escape
> sequences.

The improvement, quite obviously, is that the stand-alone Info reader,
which is text-mode based, will be able to display attributes such as
bold, underline, italics, and (on color-capable terminals) colors, and
it will be able to do that without any changes whatsoever in the
reader's own code (at least the part of it that runs on Unix and GNU
systems; DOS and Windows might need some adaptation).

> Maybe old tty info readers would send the escape sequences
> to the terminal, but you'd still need an Emacs info reader which is up
> to date, anyways.

The assumption was that the Emacs Info reader can easily translate the
escapes into faces.  ansi-colors.el already shows how.

> Given that you have compatibility issues in either
> case, I'd like to plea for a syntactical markup.

So you propose to have 2 problems instead of one, yes?

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

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-28 20:09 terminal escapes in Info files? Karl Berry
2003-10-29 12:52 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:14   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-28 17:46 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 12:20   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
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
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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