From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:36:17 +0200 Message-ID: <877dib8ivi.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87a6nbhp4t.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22443"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rm1C7wIU+GzJthWX5dC1CA4cY+g= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 17:47:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lycQl-0005g8-Uq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:47:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35370 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lycQk-0006ZD-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lycGR-0003wq-RX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lycGN-0007gn-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lycGH-0001zA-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:36:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131354 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >> In reality there is no valid reason not to use elisp. > > No valid reason NOT to use Emacs Lisp. Well, there are many > valid reasons for variety of people one important one would > be the familiarity to a programming language. GNU make is written in C but that's not where the strength lies, rather it's in the cleverness and practicality of the solution itself. BTW I'm pretty sure someone wrote or tried to write something similar in Lisp. That would be very possible if one felt the need to do that. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal