Re: terminal escapes in Info files?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: 28 Oct 2003 11:59:50 -0500
> 
> Sorry, I thought the question was how to improve the `info' program
> and the `M-x info' command.
> 
> Why do people want to improve the Info format, exactly?

Because it allows features such as index search that are not
available in HTML, and yet doesn't support colors, bold/italics, and
other text attributes that existing text-mode terminals can display.

For details, see this message (which started this thread):

  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-10/msg00621.html