Re: HTML-Info design

[David Kastrup]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> 4. Emacs Lisp code to browse HTML-Info files.
>>>
>>> I think this will be most difficult part, so better focus on this part
>>> than on the #3 which should be a piece of cake once we have an Elisp
>>> solution for the rendering.
>>
>> I don't see why this would be difficult.
>>
>> `M-x eww RET
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html RET'
>>
>> and you're off.  The `n'/`p'/`u' commands work as in Info already, so
>> the only thing that's missing is the index (which is trivial to add).
>>
>> And a search engine, which sounds like a fun weekend project for
>> somebody who finds that sort of thing amusing.
>
> Do that then.
>
> But I think the problems with that will be the problems with eww. Poor
> caching (your solution would immediately invalidate what Stefan said was
> his #1), difficult to make multiple buffers, etc...
>
> Also, I think it would be unacceptable to most people. A separate Info
> viewer is desired.

It's probably more realistic to arrive at acceptable semantics that way,
but it would likely still be sensible to share transports, general HTML
parsing and a number of other things (like most of the rendering) with
eww.

-- 
David Kastrup