From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable inElispmanualindex] Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200706072222.l57MMxS10566@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181264990 19232 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 01:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:09:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 03:09:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwSz5-00068o-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:09:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwSz5-00084H-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwSz2-00083k-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwSz0-00083X-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwSz0-00083U-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:42 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts25.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188] helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwSyz-0001LD-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.208.116]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070608010938.VMHO25739.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DFDC780D3; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:00:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200706072222.l57MMxS10566@f7.net> (Karl Berry's message of "Thu\, 7 Jun 2007 17\:22\:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72451 Archived-At: > The gain is that an HTML browser that provides a binding (say on the > `i' key) that allows looking up a term in the index, > can then be used with full functionality to browse Texinfo manuals. > I would hope that we do not need to create an ersatz node to provide > this functionality. Doing that seems very wrong to me. Can't the > implementation of such a "binding" be smart enough to look in the proper > places? What language are you talking about, anyway? An HTML browser can't/shouldn't know that it's looking at a Texinfo manual and then magically know that to lookup in an index it needs to go to the "top" node and then look for links with "index" in their name etc... OTOH, it can/should provide a way to make use of the feature defined in the HTML spec. So makeinfo should make use of that feature as well. Stefan