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Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)


From: Karl Eichwalder
Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:27:21 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

Note, info relies on fixed font and fixed line length.

> What bothers me more is that HTML seems much less amenable to
> regexp-searching than the info format

I depends.  Most of the time I'm searching for a 1-word-expression.

But let's assume you are interested in "Software Foundation" -- search
for it and you will miss this location:

   You can also order copies of GNU Emacs from the Free Software
Foundation on CD-ROM.  This is a convenient and reliable way to get a
[...]

Using HTML would not be a big improvement: either work directly on Texi
files or use a lightweight DocBook format.

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