From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, wmperry@aventail.com
Subject: Re: Wizards and W3 integration (was: Re: A road map for Oort Gnus)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:13:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2110-Tue17Apr2001181340+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjitk3sku5.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> (message from Per Abrahamsen on 17 Apr 2001 15:43:30 +0200)
> From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
> Date: 17 Apr 2001 15:43:30 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>
> > Could you tell why? Basically what I don't understand is how does HTML
> > come into the equation. That is, why does it make sense to use HTML for
> > such a purpose?
>
> Why use a markup language as glue, or why use HTML as the markup language?
The former.
> Reasons to use a markup language as glue:
> -----------------------------------------
>
> I'm more interested in the documentation aspects of the saint, than in
> the smartness aspect of the saint. In most cases, I prefer the saint
> to tell the user what to do, instead of just doing it.
Thanks, I think I understand now. I was thinking about the other type
of saint (the one which does the setup after asking some simple
questions, instead of telling the user what to do).
> Also, HTML is well known, making it easier to get people to write
> saints.
Well, assuming that the saind is written by the package
author/maintainer, I think they would know enough Lisp as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-17 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-14 10:31 A road map for Oort Gnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-14 10:53 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-04-14 12:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-14 13:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-14 14:42 ` Wizards and W3 integration (was: Re: A road map for Oort Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-14 15:22 ` Wizards and W3 integration Raymond Scholz
2001-04-14 15:45 ` Re[1]: Wizards and W3 integration (was: A road map for Oort Gnus) Eric M. Ludlam
2001-04-14 16:38 ` Wizards and W3 integration (was: " Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-16 16:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-16 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-17 10:57 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-17 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-17 13:43 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-17 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2001-04-17 15:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-17 15:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-17 15:45 ` Laura Conrad
2001-04-17 13:57 ` William M. Perry
2001-04-17 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-16 20:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-16 20:57 ` Wizards and W3 integration Robin S. Socha
2001-04-17 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-17 6:12 ` Norbert Koch
2001-04-17 14:02 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-17 14:14 ` Michael Livshin
2001-04-17 14:29 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-17 14:35 ` [noise] " Michael Livshin
2001-04-14 10:57 ` A road map for Oort Gnus Robin S. Socha
2001-04-14 13:15 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-14 13:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-16 0:06 ` Albert Krusbersky
2001-04-14 16:04 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-15 13:20 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-15 22:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-15 23:30 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-04-16 7:50 ` gnus-virgin.el (was: Re: A road map for Oort Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-16 13:23 ` gnus-virgin.el Robin S. Socha
2001-04-17 10:52 ` gnus-virgin.el (was: Re: A road map for Oort Gnus) Didier Verna
2001-04-17 11:02 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-04-17 12:00 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-17 12:30 ` Didier Verna
2001-04-17 17:12 ` Colin Marquardt
2001-04-17 21:04 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-17 8:49 ` A road map for Oort Gnus Christoph Rohland
2001-04-17 15:09 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-04-17 15:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-04-18 13:17 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-17 15:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-14 10:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-14 13:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-14 13:42 ` Michael Livshin
2001-04-15 23:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-17 18:08 ` Didier Verna
2001-04-17 18:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-17 18:21 ` Didier Verna
2001-04-17 17:47 ` Didier Verna
2001-04-17 18:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-14 13:58 ` NAGY Andras
2001-04-14 21:51 ` Steinar Bang
2001-04-15 23:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-16 6:01 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-04-16 18:06 ` Doug Alcorn
2001-04-16 21:10 ` Paul Jarc
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=2110-Tue17Apr2001181340+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il \
--to=eliz@is.elta.co.il \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=wmperry@aventail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).