From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:59:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20070805095928.GA15949@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <46B3F762.1050306@midwinter.com> <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com> <20070804091249.GA17821@uranus.ravnborg.org> <46B45B1E.5020104@midwinter.com> <85zm17h4pn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85myx7dwb3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20070805094247.GE12507@coredump.intra.peff.net> <85abt6b91w.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Steven Grimm , Sam Ravnborg , Junio C Hamano , Ismail D?nmez , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 05 11:59:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHcta-0000ri-Nd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:59:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754664AbXHEJ7b (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:59:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754670AbXHEJ7b (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:59:31 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4655 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753667AbXHEJ7b (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:59:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 16362 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2007 09:59:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Aug 2007 09:59:33 -0000 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:59:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85abt6b91w.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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