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Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info mus


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:58:08 +0200

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Tom <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:35:20 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > You can add these alternatives to the index, but in practice you
>  > > can't compete with google with a manually compiled index, because
>  > > you can add just so many alternatives, while google does the same
>  > > mechanically and intelligently (stemming, thesaurus, etc.), so
>  > > it will always have an advantage.
>  > 
>  > So let's add such a front end to Emacs as well.  Should be a nice
>  > project, I think.
> 
> The problem is how do you assemble the results into an "index" for the
> manual?

That's one issue that needs to be solved as part of the project.



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