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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Stallman writes:

 > Can we define a new type of URL to refer to a locally-installed
 > HTML-Info manual?

URLs are already sufficiently flexible.  You can run a dedicated HTTP
server for http: schemes or use a file: URL for local files.  To
reference sub-file objects you use the #fragment notation.

You'd only need a different scheme if you want URNs for info manuals
such that Emacs could check for one installed locally and then go out
to some canonical location on the web if not found.