Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu

[David Kastrup]

"Mathias Dahl" <address@hidden> writes:

>> You don't have "up", "next", "previous", "top" keyboard keys, and the
>> respective buttons scroll around with the rest of the page.
>> ...
>
> Okay okay okay, I get your point. I won't argue with you on the
> benefits on using Info vs HTML; as I said I use it myself when I
> feel like using it. Some days though, I just like to browse around
> some plain "dumb" HTML. And, I won't give in here, "forcing" new
> users to use this (for some of them at least) "strange" Info
> interface when we could also provide a link (it would not need to be
> the default) to some HTML-version of the documentation, is a
> pity. Just because we know Info is superior to HTML in many respect
> does not mean that we should not provide an alternative.
>
> For example, we could add a new menu item, "Read the manual online"
> (or maybe "Read the HTML manual online") under the sub menu Help ->
> More manuals.

I strongly object.  From inside of Emacs, the info manual is the
appropriate resource.  Whether we keep a HTML version in our tree for
the sake of offline reading (when Emacs is not available) is a
different thing, and how we may point the user to its availability.
But starting a HTML browser on it via an Emacs menu entry is utterly
the wrong thing to do.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum