From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:29:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1AEu7w-000UNaC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u65i8ovvg.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:24:03 +0100)
Oliver Scholz <epameinondas@gmx.de> wrote
IIRC desctop environments like KDE or Gnome already use a browser
for their “help desk” ...
Yes, they do; and that means that their online help is worse than the
online help I read in the mid-1980s. They have retrogressed a
generation.
Web browsers waste effort; you cannot navigate through HTML documents
quickly and easily as you can with Info. HTML is one of the poorer
designs.
In addition to printed output and Info, Texinfo produces HTML output
as a surface expression. This means that there is no need to make
Info as inefficent as HTML. At the very least, please keep Info up to
the efficiency of the 1980s.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-28 17:46 terminal escapes in Info files? Karl Berry
2003-10-28 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 12:20 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 16:24 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 17:29 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-10-29 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-30 1:13 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 22:06 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-03 12:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 18:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 19:09 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 20:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-29 20:47 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 22:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-30 2:37 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30 2:55 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 18:00 ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-29 18:43 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-30 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-31 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 20:09 Karl Berry
2003-10-29 12:52 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 17:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:53 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 21:18 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 15:28 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-31 2:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-28 16:51 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 16:50 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 1:26 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 10:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 13:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 10:42 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 16:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-29 21:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 22:39 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-30 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:45 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-26 12:20 Karl Berry
2003-10-26 12:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-26 15:40 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-10-27 7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-27 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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