From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83373 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: eww Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87bo73a39w.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371582815 11787 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 19:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 21:13:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1LQ-0007Fw-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1LP-0006uF-QQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1LJ-0006oS-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1LH-0003Wc-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:48691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up1LH-0003WW-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.DIT.UMontreal.CA (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r5IJDLgC018434; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 171F6B4178; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:04:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4613=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4613> : streams <984421> : uri <1451678> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160597 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83373 Archived-At: >> I'm more optimistic about the possibility. >> Is there a particular thing you think would be difficult or messy? > Info has a bunch of commands for jumping to the index and searching the > entire manual, etc. Reading the HTML version of the manual will never > be as convenient as reading the info version. AFAIK, it's easy to make HTML pages which includes most/all the meta information that Info pages contain. So you can then provide the "bunch of commands" without much trouble. >> Maybe there is a way to do it as a derived mode so that it doesn't >> conflict too much with the web-browsing aspect of eww. > Or just continue to use info, which is really good at this sort of > thing. :-) Info has serious shortcomings which are hard to circumvent. E.g. it's pre-formatted. Stefan