From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 07:50:31 +0300 (IDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020833667 1256 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 04:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 04:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@glug.org, karl@freefriends.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 175JT8-0000K9-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 06:54:26 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175Jb6-0001Yj-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 07:02:41 +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 175JSs-0005aN-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 00:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175JRI-0005Or-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 00:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA20780; Wed, 8 May 2002 07:50:32 +0300 (IDT) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: 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:3701 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3701 On Tue, 7 May 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote: > It later occured to me that I don't see a good reason for extended the > Info format with these capabilities -- there is a perfectly fine > format for text with hyperlinks and images called HTML (I hope that > doesn't come as a suprise to anyone) and making a viewer in Emacs for > texi2html converted manuals similar to Info is IMHO a better > solution. Using HTML is IMHO a much worse solution, since HTML doesn't support features like index searches without which a manual cannot be easily used as a reference. That is, if you need to quickly find information about some very specific issue--a command, a key, a subject like "version control" or "compilation errors"--with HTML, all you have is text search, which is both inefficient and relies on the keywords to be actually present in the text. Many advanced Info features, including quite a few Emacs features related to documentation, use the Info indices extensively. In any case, texi2html is not required since makeinfo is capable of producing HTML (and even DocBook, as of the latest release 4.2 of Texinfo).