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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Ismail D?nmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:59:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070805095928.GA15949@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85abt6b91w.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:54:51AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> >> (info "(gcc) Extended Asm")
> >> 
> >> and when you are reading mail in Emacs, you can click on that line
> >> and get to the respective page in a manual comprising hundreds of
> >> pages.
> >
> > Ugh. A documentation referencing system that works only in one
> > particular editor,
> 
> That works in readers of the info format.  Do HTML references work
> outside of HTML readers?

I'm not talking about the _format_, I'm talking about the _referencing
system_. In other words, because URLs are a standard, there are
thousands of programs which recognize them and can find the resource
they mention (which in turn, may spawn an info reader, an html reader,
or some other interpreter).

What software is going to recognize (info "(gcc) Extended Asm") in your
email and realize that it's a reference to another document? None,
except emacs.

Though I don't especially like the info format or readers, my argument
here isn't against it. It is against the feature you mentioned being a
substantial benefit, since a large part of the world isn't reading their
email in emacs.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-04  0:28 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04  0:41 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04  1:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04  1:48     ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04  3:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 13:26         ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04  3:49     ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04  4:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04  4:57         ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-08-04  5:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04  5:52             ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-08-04  6:11         ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04  6:17           ` Doug Maxey
2007-08-04  9:12           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-04 10:55             ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04 12:19               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 16:03                 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04 16:08                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 16:27                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05  9:50                   ` Jeff King
2007-08-04 16:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04 17:49                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 19:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04 19:55                       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 21:27                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-05  4:29                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05  7:51                           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 17:08                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 18:08                               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 18:23                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 18:35                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 19:11                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:06                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:32                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:29                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 21:43                                   ` Bruce Korb
2007-08-05 22:15                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 22:31                                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-08  8:11                                         ` Man-pages in user manual (was: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4) David Kastrup
2007-08-05 23:38                                 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Junio C Hamano
2007-08-06  0:13                                   ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06  5:44                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05  9:42                     ` Jeff King
2007-08-05  9:54                       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05  9:59                         ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-08-05 10:20                           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 10:22                             ` Jeff King
2007-08-05 10:40                               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 11:23                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 11:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 14:29             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-04  7:30         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 10:39         ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-08-04 11:46           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 12:51             ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-08-04 15:19         ` Michael
2007-08-04 13:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-04 13:42   ` Julian Phillips
2007-08-07 12:11 ` David Kågedal

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