From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:44:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87388ldj1f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9x2f9me.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87a92uf8ik.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761dif6ib.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k31xkue1.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87mw6tj8gp.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418395526 29976 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 14:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Phillip Lord , Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 15:45:25 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 1XzRTA-0008In-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:45:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRTA-00068G-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39161) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRSZ-0005cU-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRSX-00021V-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRSX-00021Q-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34732 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRSX-0001M0-7U; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3349E0669; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:44:44 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:18:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:179911 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > I guess that searching like that is what people are used to today > (except for fields, of course). I like the Emacs built in > documentation for functions and variables very much. However that is > limited to elisp. To me Info is much more inconvenient. Personally I > would prefer some searching enhanced with fields there. Shrug. The Info index uses exactly the same completion/input as the builtin documentation for functions and variables: wildcards, completion lists and all. Which is not much of a surprise since it uses the same code. -- David Kastrup