RE: info URL « open at point » patch

["Vincent Belaïche" <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>]

See (info "(texinfo) Reference Syntax")…




De : Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
Envoyé : dimanche 24 juin 2018 18:48
À : Eli Zaretskii
Cc : emacs-devel@gnu.org; emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Objet : RE: info URL « open at point » patch
   

Hello Eli,
To my understanding @xref works only for info links (node names or anchors, or qualified thereof where the qualificator is the info document name) --- maybe I am wrong, tell me if so ---  but I want to refer to an HTML  or PDF document.
  Vincent.




De : Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Envoyé : dimanche 24 juin 2018 16:31
À : Vincent Belaïche
Cc : emacs-devel@gnu.org; emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Objet : Re: info URL « open at point » patch
  

> From: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>
> 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.