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

quoted text
> >> (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
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