Re: [vile] online help-file

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:10:08AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Paul Fox wrote:
>
>> thomas wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm considering moving vile.hlp to html (and generating the vile.hlp
>> > file used within the editor from that).  Here's a very first try at
>> > converting it (no hyperlinks yet):
>> >
>> > http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile-hlp.html
>> >
>>
>> good idea.
>>
>> clearly the html version needs a table of contents.  i think it would
>> be good for the text version too, since at least one could search for
>> the strings one finds there.
>
> agreed.  Though (looking for feedback), it seems that if the contents is
> at the beginning, it can take a lot of space and make it hard to start,
> though on the other hand if it's at the end, it's less accessible).
>
If it's HTML you can surely have a link to the contents at the top of
the file.  For the text version maybe there's an introduction before
the contents.

-- 
Chris Green