Re: WIBNI there was a URL-syntax way of referring to the manual?

[wmperry@gnu.org (William M. Perry)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Janne Rinta-Manty <rintaman@cs.Helsinki.FI> writes:
>
>> >> That is, what if "info://Gnus/Select_Methods" pulled up the Gnus
>>>> *Info* pages and picked off section "Select Methods"?  And
>>>> "info://Message/Mail_Variables" did the similar obvious thing?
>>
>> ZSH> Sounds cool. The hack is `+' -> SPC or "%20". Try
>> ZSH> info://Gnus/Select%20Methods
>> ZSH> info://Message/Mail+Variables
>>
>> Cool!  But IMHO it would be better if it were info:/Foo/Bar, not with
>> the double slash, conforming to the Generic URI syntax in RFC 2396.
>
> KDE's konqueror support these kind of URLs for browsing info files.
>
> info:/dir
> info:/am-utils/Top
> info:/am-utils/Supported Platforms

*sigh*  I wish people would look around before implementing stuff like
this.  Emacs/W3 supported info: URLs for ages and uses the #target notation
to specify a node.  Seems a bit more in keeping with what #foo is supposed
to mean in general URL syntax.

-bp
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