From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: hyperlink to customize Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87txegjqq2.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> References: <87r49lloaa.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <87mwk9llw7.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <87iouwlnmj.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47075) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqVcf-0008L0-MH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:17:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqVcZ-0004Ev-Mr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:17:45 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VqVcZ-0004Eq-Gg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:17:39 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VqVcV-00058R-Ql for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:17:35 +0100 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:17:35 +0100 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:17:35 +0100 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Brady Trainor writes: > Brady Trainor uw.edu> writes: > ... > Should probably just get comfortable with the info version of elisp > manual. Yes, you will be happiest when you are assimilated :-) Emacs insists on info files for all packages distributed with it, so info is the lingua franca. > Would be nice to have org versions of all info files. I've heard similar sentiments before and although I agree with the specific case of the org manual[fn:1], I can't see what benefits it would provide in most or all other cases. Hence my question: why do you want to have org versions of all info files? What would the benefits be? Footnotes: [fn:1] Two reasons: if one is a producer of org documentation (which we all are to one extent or another), it's easier to write it in one's "native" language, so to speak. And having the manual in org provides a good test of org functionality (primarily export), the kind of test that Bernt Hansen's document has been providing for a long time, but perhaps on a larger scale. But rewriting existing texinfo documentation in org just does not seem to provide many (or even any) benefits. Nick