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Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
From: |
Oliver Scholz |
Subject: |
Re: terminal escapes in Info files? |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:28:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Oliver Scholz <address@hidden>
[...]
>> Maybe old tty info readers would send the escape sequences
>> to the terminal, but you'd still need an Emacs info reader which is up
>> to date, anyways.
>
> The assumption was that the Emacs Info reader can easily translate the
> escapes into faces. ansi-colors.el already shows how.
And yet you'd need to hack the Emacs info reader in order to make
sure that it uses ansi-color.el. Maybe the patch is trivial, even
easier than stripping markup using format.el. But it won't work out
of the box for all users.
>> Given that you have compatibility issues in either
>> case, I'd like to plea for a syntactical markup.
>
> So you propose to have 2 problems instead of one, yes?
Yes, indeed, because IMO using ANSI escape sequences is a step into
the wrong direction, while introducing (a few) syntactical markup tags
is a step into the right direction. YMMV, but my personal opinion: Iff
you want to change the info format at all, please do it by introducing
syntactical markup.
Oliver
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- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, (continued)
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Karl Berry, 2003/10/28
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Andreas Schwab, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Alper Ersoy, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?,
Oliver Scholz <=
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2003/10/30
Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/29
Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Karl Berry, 2003/10/28
Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Karl Berry, 2003/10/28