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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! 
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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