> From: David Vanderschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 17 Jul 2006 09:24:41 -0500 > > >In other words, if Emacs can easily resolve a reference to an Info > >manual from within another Info manual, it can also resolve such a > >reference from an HTML page. > > Eli, could you please provide a pointer to some > documentation of what such a "properly formatted > reference to an Info manual" looks like in an HTML > document?
I don't have time to do the research, sorry. But since something like "(emacs)Top" is enough to get "M-x ffap" do the Right Thing, I find it hard to believe that what I said cannot be done with some customization. > Given that the mechanism you mention would only work > if one were using emacs as his browser, the argument, > as I understand it, still strikes me as being somewhat > irrelevant. I personally would rather use a > full-function browser like Firefox Here's where we differ: I find no reason whatsoever to educate users to go to another browser, where Emacs already supports the same functionality. > Can such a reference be > formulated and Firefox be configured in such a way > that even Firefox itself could fire up emacs's Info > reader? At least on GNU/Linux. you could use file:///usr/local/info/emacs etc.
