From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IGluZm8gVVJMIMKrIG9wZW4gYXQgcG9pbnQgwrsgcGF0Y2g=?= Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:31:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8lstfwh.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fX639-00042B-Ml for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:31:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fX637-0000nd-Cu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:31:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Vincent =?windows-1252?Q?Bela=EFche?= on Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:57:53 +0000) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Vincent =?windows-1252?Q?Bela=EFche?= Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Vincent Belaïche > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:57:53 +0000 > > I am writing to both Emacs-devel and org-mode list because this concerns > browsing URL, and Org-mode already has quite some stuff on this. > Recently I came across this that in an Info file a « file: » protocol > URL is not opened at point. Please find attached a patch to make it > known to the Emacs info browser. > My point was that I have some manual that are only in HTML or PDF, like > the SVN manual, In have a local copy, and I want to find it through a > manual index that I written in Texinfo to get an info node with this > index. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why support for file:// protocol is needed in Info. Info already supports its own protocol of referencing to an external file, via the @xref command and its varieties, with 4 or more arguments. So why cannot you simply use one of those cross-referencing commands, if you want a reference to another manual? Thanks.