Re: [vile] online help-file

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 07:06:45PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, J. Chris Coppick wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>
>> I think this will break the Help extension, but that's not the end
>> of the world.  Someone remind me to fix it later.
>
> Offhand, the candidates for generating the text file seem to be lynx and  
> (e)links(2), which both put the main-headings in column 1, which seems to 
> be all that Help.pm needs.  (I mention elinks since 2-3 of the tables  
> exceed lynx's ability to look nice - in particular the one for built-in  
> functions, though on the other hand relying on nice but undocumented  
> behavior isn't good either ;-).
>
> I did look at w3m also, but it puts everything in column 1...
>
Yes, after going round in several circles, I have ended up using links
as my default HTML mail viewer since it seems to make the best all
round shot at turning HTML into text.

-- 
Chris Green