From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Smith Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 12:08:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20190407110852.GA16508@darkstar.example.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-texinfo" To: George Clemmer Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Texinfo List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:02:19PM -0400, George Clemmer wrote: > Gavin Smith writes: > [...] > > A manual with this interface added is at > > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo-html/Overview.html. > > All the important keyboard commands that work in the Info viewers are > > implemented, including index lookup. > > Nice! I like seeing Info commands work on WWW-posted doc. This would be > useful to an Emacs/Info user for packages that aren't installed or when > their Info system is broken. To reach the more numerous "non Emacs/Info > users", these commands need to be advertised and promoted. Is there a > plan for this? Not really. That's why I wrote to this list. > WRT the current implementation ... > > In Emacs and Info, typing 'h' shows Info keyboard commands. It didn't do > anything visiting this site with CHROME and Safari. > > It would be nice if a second 'C-s' advanced to the next match without > requiring . > > 'C-s' on the site is so slow that I thought it was broken at first :( Thanks for the feedback. C-s will be slow because it is retrieving each HTML page over a network.