From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex] Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:29:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070602101810.GA1221@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180805429 2255 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 17:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, karl@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 19:30:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuXQo-0003zZ-EL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:30:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXQo-0007Si-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXQS-0007FV-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXQS-0007Er-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXQR-0007Ek-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuXQR-0000p2-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuXQ8-0000yN-7e; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:29:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <20070602101810.GA1221@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:18:10 +0100) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72060 Archived-At: I think this is a horrible idea. I used to get lots of emails in HTML, and I hated it. The great thing about Info format is that you can read it. It is not hard to read hand-written HTML such as is used on gnu.org. It's text. But that means there are no faces, no graphics, no non-ASCII characters, etc. Info format was a fine way of representing documentation in the 1970s, with the features that made sense for on-line reading at the time. But now much better features are normal for displaying text, even in Emacs. How many people edit XML directly in Emacs? I've tried it, and it's not nice. My suggestion was to use a limited subset of HTML, not XML. I edit simple HTML by hand often for gnu.org pages. I do not know how XML differs from HTML. Perhaps something makes XML harder to edit than HTML; I have no opinion about that.