From: Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:19:18 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hfpss5$jut$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvljhba4wh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:46:46 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> We talked about texinfo documentation at the time of accession to GNU.
>> I understand the value in having every GNU program consistent but
>> texinfo is not very technically easy given our platform and the
>> technical environment of 2009, and in my opinion not a good use of
>> time.
>
> I have no idea what you're referring to. We all know that Texinfo is
> not as sexy as HTML and has its share of shortcomings, but it does its
> job fairly well and has several features still mostly unmatched by any
> other format (especially when accessed via an Info viewer such as the
> one in Emacs).
We've talked about this before, including in the bazaar list thread
"Printable Documentation" in January this year, and in <https://
bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/219334> (filed by Stefan.) Let's
discuss the practicalities in that bug not on the emacs list.
> I think the question shouldn't be "should we do provide Texinfo", but
> "how are we going to do it".
I agree we should, it is just a question of someone getting around to
doing the research and making a patch. Regardless of GNU-ness, there are
people who find it convenient to read their documentation inside Info and
we'd like to help them.
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 19:47 support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-01 20:48 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-12-02 5:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 6:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-01 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-01 22:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-01 23:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 3:00 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 3:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 3:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 4:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-02 5:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 6:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-02 6:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 7:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 8:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 8:32 ` Bojan Nikolic
2009-12-03 9:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 17:05 ` Splitting changes (was: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir) Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-03 19:26 ` Splitting changes Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 19:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 17:24 ` support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 18:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 18:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 19:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 19:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 21:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 22:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 0:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-04 1:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 2:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-04 6:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-04 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 21:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-04 22:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 23:52 ` Glenn Morris
2009-12-05 3:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-05 6:49 ` Jan Djärv
2009-12-05 7:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-05 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 12:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-05 19:59 ` Glenn Morris
2009-12-06 19:27 ` Richard Stallman
2009-12-06 20:11 ` GNU bzr [was Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir] Glenn Morris
2009-12-09 13:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-12-09 16:50 ` GNU bzr Karl Fogel
2009-12-15 23:11 ` Karl Fogel
2009-12-10 0:16 ` support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Martin Pool
2009-12-10 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-10 4:19 ` Martin Pool [this message]
2009-12-10 14:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-11 4:02 ` Martin Pool
2009-12-18 15:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-21 1:49 ` Martin Pool
2009-12-11 5:53 ` Martin Pool
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