RE: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Drew Adams]

> > Probably what I should do is write an Emacs command that does
> > all of that from an Info node: grab the URL to that same manual
> > node on the web.  But it's so quick to get it manually that I
> > haven't bothered, so far.
> 
> To make that work reliably it might be reasonable to create a
> Texinfo command to specify the "canonical" web location and have
> this converted into something in Info that the info reader can
> recognize and interpret.
> 
> This should actually even be workable for the standalone Info
> reader.  Of course it relies on the HTML node name generation
> being the same as the Info reader can readily guess.

I would use such an Emacs command, if available.

Would you like to put this in the form of an enhancement request
(`M-x report-emacs-bug')?

If not, I will do so, but for the additional information you
offered I can only point to what you said - I'm no expert on it.