From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:11:40 +0900 Message-ID: <87y4q8et2r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418664052 29999 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2014 17:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 18:20:45 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 1Y0ZK9-0002GD-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:20:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0ZK9-00077S-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0ZBq-0002Jh-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0ZBi-00014H-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:37602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0ZBZ-00011y-Uy; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87E6E1C38A6; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:11:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 615BC1A2CFC; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:11:40 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87lhm9ayat.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:180161 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > This discussion seems a bit surreal since > > gnome-open info:emacs > > already opens a help browser on the Emacs documentation. OK, but "info emacs" is shorter and works on all my platforms (none of which have gnome-open installed, all of which have info in /usr/bin, including the BSD-based ones -- exception of course is Windows, which isn't "my" platform and I did have to explicitly install info there). OTOH, neither "xdg-open info:emacs" nor "open info:emacs" do anything useful. Note that "info" doesn't need to be info in the future; it can be a program that does the right thing with program names (ie, translating them to URLs to hand to a browser).