"Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >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. As far as I am concerned, you have lost your credibility about what you claimed. Not only do not know how to do it, you do not even have pointer to a document that might tell us how it do it. You based an argument on a 'fact', for which it now appears that your only basis is your unsupported belief. Now you also admit that "some customization" may be required. Recall that this can start from newbies browsing the Emacs Wiki. Whatever happens must happen naturally without them having to jump through hoops and without requiring them to use emacs as their browser. I intended this to be a discussion about what can be achieved readily in practice, not about what is theoretically possible. >> 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. "another browser"? I suspect that there are very few people for whom emacs w3 is their first browser. Use of emacs instead of one of the biggies (like Firefox) for browsing would be more along the lines of what I would refer to as using "another browser" and the transition to it is more like what would require an effort "to educate users to go to another browser". With this opinion of yours, I think you are in a small minority. I am also a fan of emacs, but I don't look to it to solve ALL my computing needs. Some browser function may be available in emacs; but, for me, emacs is aesthetically unsatisfactory compared to a full-function browser and it lacks a lot of fancy features (extensions included) which I have come to value in Firefox. There are very few Web sites on which I would consider using emacs. (The Wiki might be one if it really were possible to make the connection to the Info files and if such references were in there.) Regards, David V.
