From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:40:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> <87mxxweqr6.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <87y6fy4y6b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273106869 30741 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 00:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 00:47:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 02:47:48 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9pFi-0001lB-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 02:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9p4x-0001YM-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:36:39 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe01.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eISsxQa7OCE34tm4n3SoeBmfuvw= Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 20:40:17 UTC Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177965 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73489 Archived-At: > It just happens that it isn't. And nobody went to the pain to move info > to HTML since, after all, the end user never gets to see it. Actually, the end user does get to see it in two different ways: 1- the end user gets to see that reformatting for different window-width doesn't work. And when some text elements get hidden (xrefs), the text formatting doesn't look too hot. 2- the end user gets to see very fast (even on slow machines) rendering because there's pretty much no text processing taking place. Stefan