From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Refilling overrides texinfo commands Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:33:14 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306251333.h5PDXE304606@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056548293 4505 80.91.224.249 (25 Jun 2003 13:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 15:38:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19VASr-000171-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:37:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19VAWu-0005fe-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VAQ6-0005b8-6e for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VAP5-0004pV-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19VAOn-0004Qo-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VAOk-0004Jz-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h5PDXE304606; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:33:14 -0400 Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15238 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15238 unless Emacs would start operating directly on the Texinfo source files That isn't a viable alternative, because then the Texinfo language couldn't change independent of Emacs. That's more or less the whole reason that Info format exists. (Or if Emacs would give up on its refilling attempts.) Although I appreciate the desire to refill the info files according to the window size (I assume that's the point), there isn't enough information in the Info files to do this, as you say. If you want to completely rewrite the output, Emacs could (in theory) use the xml or docbook output. In practice, I doubt it is ready for such critical use, nor do I think it's a good idea, all I'm saying is that that's the extent to which we'd have to go to do it right.