Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:09:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970112130542.549B-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com>
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > At 11:59 AM 1/12/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: > >Get me right, my emacs runs all day and night, its uptime is usually > >identical to the system uptime. Nevertheless, there are people who > >don't prefer it as their editor of choice, and the attitude ``use it > >to read the info files or die'' would just cause me to say: to the > >hell with all the info files. Make them HTML or man pages. (We > >already sorta rely on HTML, see the FAQ and the handbook.) > > I'm in favour. I haven't yet seen a good browser for info, and it is pain > to get the ones that exist to even open the files. While we're at it, it > would even be nice to have the man-pages as HTML - not as a replacement > format, but as an alternative. > > With a small lookup-program and automatic conversion, it might even be a > usable alternative - I might try to create a CGI to do automatic conversion > as an experiment. > > > Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ > Hello I always view the info files as html. Check out http://www.bazzle.com/cgi/info2html.cgi this is a slow link so be nice. There is a pointer at the bottom of the page for info2html. Peace, Eric J. Chet - ejc@naserver1.cb.lucent.com - ejc@bazzle.com
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