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Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for f


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:12:09 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> The new shortdoc thingy is split into two parts: the actual data and
> the UI.  So nothing prevents you or anyone else from implementing an
> Info UI for it.

My original intention was to implement such a documentation browser
using Web UI in eww, but I already agreed that was a bad idea.

However, I'm not sure about Info UI.  The only thing that stops me from
implementing this in Info is a doubt that the users of the standalone
Info reader might expect the same virtual Info manuals be available for them.

For example, with a dynamically generated Info manual with groups of functions
and the addressing scheme such as (info "(shortdoc) regexp functions"),
would the users of the standalone Info reader expect that visiting
the same Info location should produce the same documentation to them
in the standalone Info reader?



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