Re: A command to indicate a canonical web resource

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:48 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> The command is supposed to be a _single_ command per document without
> any printed output in the Info.  Its purpose is so that the Info reader
> is able to propose a corresponding web link (containing the same
> content) for the current Info-internal page.
>
> It may work through anchor and cross-manual reference, but then this
> anchor would need to have some boilerplate text convention in order to
> be clearly recognizable by the Info reader.
>

I think it would be easy to implement, the base URL could easily be
put in the local variables section of the Info file (which appears at
the very end of the file and at the moment only is used to declare the
document encoding. I don't have a strong opinion on whether it is
desirable but the URL's should be stable, and refer to the same
version (for example, all of the old emacs manuals would have to be on
www.gnu.org ).