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: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87wq66ufyt.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417867511 7142 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 12:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Óscar Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 13:05:06 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 1XxE6j-00051X-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:05:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE6j-0001Wm-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE6S-0001Wf-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE6R-0000gn-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE6R-0000gj-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE6Q-00068O-Ja; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:04:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wq66ufyt.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:08:42 +0100) 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:179158 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I once looked at the documentation for Org mode, and gave up. It presented doing things I didn't find useful. I did not see, at the beginning, how to use it as markup for manuals. Perhaps it says that later, but I did not get that far. I could consider Org mode as a way of formatting manuals if I saw documentation presenting Org mode _as_ a way to format manuals. However, it would still have two big drawbacks as a candidate for GNU documentation. * It is a program. What we need is a format. * The program runs only in Emacs. Texinfo is a format and you can use any editor to write that format. I don't want to take a step back on either of these points. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.