From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: 09 May 2002 02:40:13 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bsbqedxe.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200205081727.g48HRW728867@f7.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020879744 4161 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 17:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ats@acm.org, bob@rattlesnake.com, jas@extundo.com, eliz@is.elta.co.il, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, ttn@glug.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175VSK-000150-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 19:42:24 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175VaY-00023e-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 19:50:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175VS9-0006yH-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 13:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175VQY-0006hV-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 13:40:34 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-229.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.229] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 175VQW-0001i2-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 02:40:32 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 40CF73090; Thu, 9 May 2002 02:40:13 +0900 (JST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200205081727.g48HRW728867@f7.net> Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3750 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3750 karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > Then, either you need to have docs installed in a webserver's space > that does CGI, or the browser needs to handle running CGIs. Existing > browsers don't do this. > > Of course it won't necessarily work in all configurations, and certainly > couldn't be automatically installed in all cases, but at least the > feature would be available for those who thought it important. Given what I know about current practice, it sounds like it wouldn't be supported _most_ of time (that is, that this sort of thing basically isn't supported unless you run a webserver, which is very hard to ensure) -- and global searching is a pretty big thing to lose. -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'