Re: epub init file, and questions

[Per Bothner]

On 12/25/21 22:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Your comments are all on-point, but I'll just add a few notes.

> > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:44:34 -0800
> > From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>

> > Note that using eww-mode running in a terminal displays texi2any-generated
> > html work pretty decently, so that could potentially replace the
> > standalone info program, once we have an html-supporting info mode.
>
> Two issues with this:
>
>    . the stand-alone Info reader is a much leaner program than Emacs

Who cares? On modern computers, Emacs is relatively lean, and almost
everyone who would use 'info' is likely to have Emacs installed.
Using an emacs-server of course helps.

>    . the eww mode is _slow_, especially on GUI displays, because it
>      performs layout calculations in Lisp.  eww mode was never designed
>      to handle large bodies of text.

It seems fast enough on my laptop.  (Though I notice an annoying bug,
in that eww doesn't seem to reflow on window resize.)

I also tried xwidget-webkit-browse-url, which worked pretty well,
and of course handles info.js as well.  That is of course less portable,
though Windows and MacOS have similar embeddable browsers.

To toot my own horn: if your terminal is DomTerm (https://domterm.org),
you can type:

  $ domterm --tab browse file:///path/to/manual.html
or:
  $ domterm --above browse file:///path/to/manual.html

and new tab or pane is opened containing the manual.
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