Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 03:53:42 -0800 From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Message-ID: <199701121154.DAA12628@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:59:44 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970112115944.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Josh MacDonald wrote: > > > Third, you should all be reading info files with emacs, not info. Info > > is a stupid program and doesn't deserve to exist. Emacs, however, is not, > > and the info browser is quite good. > > Unless emacs shrinks to a few hundred kilobyte in size, it _does_ > deserve to exist. Info(1) can be shipped with the base system, emacs > cannot. > > 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.) Yeah I wasn't too serious, but since most are reference manuals they're not really required for urgent-what-if-I-dont-have-emacs-installed-yet situations. There is the HTML route, too. texi2html produces pretty good HTML. -josh
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