From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: 28 Oct 2003 13:08:37 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067365026 4308 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 18:17:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 19:17:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEYOt-0006aI-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEYOt-0006mZ-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEYOT-0002Z4-21 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEYOC-0002Uj-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEYNM-00026n-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEYH6-0007yO-MU; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from vor.iro.umontreal.ca (vor.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.42]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9SI8bnR007091; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: by vor.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7CC193C63E; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:08:37 -0500 (EST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-Reply-To: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17510 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17510 > Because, believe it or not, some people still use it, Of course I use it everyday. > there's a lot of history there, and just eradicating Info and replacing it > with HTML would not go over well. But by switching to something like enriched-mode, we're heading straight down that path and it isn't hard to see that sooner or later we'd want more than enriched-mode and ... I guess the question is: how much work would it require to take the subset of HTML generated by makeinfo and render it (both in M-x info and in the info program) ? Stefan