From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:00:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <0e8bcea1-3da3-4d64-807e-d616b8f38a45@default> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> <20141206061019.GC14890@thyrsus.com> <87r3wdp0r5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <2e3dd70f-e3b7-4fb7-81c2-72331b5bc520@default> <87d27wofkt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417888879 28335 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 18:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 19:01:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxJfI-0001WQ-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:01:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxJfI-0006QM-Hf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxJev-0006Q5-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxJen-0004oT-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:36706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxJem-0004oH-MQ; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sB6I0ZEW030732 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:00:35 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB6I0YV3024757 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:00:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0018.oracle.com (abhmp0018.oracle.com [141.146.116.24]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB6I0Xik017973; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:00:34 GMT In-Reply-To: <87d27wofkt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179197 Archived-At: > > Probably what I should do is write an Emacs command that does > > all of that from an Info node: grab the URL to that same manual > > node on the web. But it's so quick to get it manually that I > > haven't bothered, so far. >=20 > To make that work reliably it might be reasonable to create a > Texinfo command to specify the "canonical" web location and have > this converted into something in Info that the info reader can > recognize and interpret. >=20 > This should actually even be workable for the standalone Info > reader. Of course it relies on the HTML node name generation > being the same as the Info reader can readily guess. I would use such an Emacs command, if available. Would you like to put this in the form of an enhancement request (`M-x report-emacs-bug')? If not, I will do so, but for the additional information you offered I can only point to what you said - I'm no expert on it.