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: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <878ui8bwfh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d27oliue.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3w2fgux.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <871to1f69o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87lhm9ayat.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q8et2r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wwbzs7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vblces36.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d27kby75.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418668078 32370 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2014 18:27:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 19:27:51 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 1Y0aN5-0000RA-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:27:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0aN2-0003T7-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0aMn-0003Pn-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0aMm-0004vR-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0aMm-0004vN-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53445 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0aMl-0002fk-CU; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E302DF323; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:27:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87d27kby75.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:49:18 +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:180173 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >> > xdg-open does [open a help browser on the Emacs manual] here >> > (basically same as gnome-open). >> >> I wonder how what happened. What does "ls -l `which xdg-open`" tell >> you? > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13794 Jul 16 11:43 /usr/bin/xdg-open > >> Or maybe there's a common database for XDG-conforming utilities? > > Isn't that sort of the point? See, for example, > > > >> Anyway, it's hardly reliable if it doesn't work on another distro >> (I've tried on Gentoo and Debian now). > > Probably depends on yelp being installed. Oh, by the way, that's also one of the things that is great about GNOME=A03: there is no kind of documentation where such stuff may be found. It's basically a combination of searching for obscure Wiki pages and blowing your top in mailing lists that helps you find out about such stuff (the gconftool-2 recipes just stopped working at some point of time, naturally without error messages as they did some configuration that some old applications might still have noticed). --=20 David Kastrup