Re: eww

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'm more optimistic about the possibility.
>> Is there a particular thing you think would be difficult or messy?
> Info has a bunch of commands for jumping to the index and searching the
> entire manual, etc.  Reading the HTML version of the manual will never
> be as convenient as reading the info version.

AFAIK, it's easy to make HTML pages which includes most/all the meta
information that Info pages contain.  So you can then provide the "bunch
of commands" without much trouble.

>> Maybe there is a way to do it as a derived mode so that it doesn't
>> conflict too much with the web-browsing aspect of eww.
> Or just continue to use info, which is really good at this sort of
> thing.  :-)

Info has serious shortcomings which are hard to circumvent.  E.g. it's
pre-formatted.


        Stefan