From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 01:10:19 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141206061019.GC14890@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417846240 1146 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 06:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 06:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christopher Allan Webber , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 07:10:35 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 1Xx8Ze-0007F1-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:10:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx8Ze-0000Hv-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:10:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx8ZW-0000Gu-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx8ZQ-0005AY-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:60257 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx8ZQ-0005AS-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 08AD5383539; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 01:10:19 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:179096 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > But I can't help point out that there are 2 issues: the source format. > And the doc-viewer (which may or may not require translation of the > source format to some other format). The doc viewer would be a web browser. We don't have to solve that problem - not having a separate doc viewer would be the point of the change, technically speaking. > Until there is a documentation viewer available in Elisp that is almost > as good as Info-mode while being prettier, Does a web browser not qualify? If not, why not? -- Eric S. Raymond