From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 13:34:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA07369 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA07299 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id WAA16965 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:34:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id WAA29996 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:28:47 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) id TAA27360; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:27:11 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! References: <87n2udlbhy.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 13 Jan 1997 19:27:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:54:50 +0100 Message-ID: <877mlhbfcx.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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.) There are ways to convert info to html. But please also retain the real info files. I happen to like them. They are better structured than HTML (up, down, next, previous node). -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have