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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> As far as I can tell, there's nothing very specific in the info
> format for indices.  There's just a convention that the top node
> should have one or more entries with names like "Foo Index" and that
> those subnodes should be made up of just one large menu of xrefs.
> The same could be done for HTML, I'm sure.

"makeinfo --html" already creates the index nodes.

However, to use the indices efficiently (as opposed to just as large 
menus with links), you need the browser to support the equivalent 
of Info-index, Info-index-next, etc.  Otherwise, looking up a subject 
becomes a much more tedious process, especially if the manual has several 
large indices (e.g., the Emacs manual).

Is there any browser that supports such feature?  I'm not aware of such a 
browser.

> What bothers me more is that HTML seems much less amenable to
> regexp-searching than the info format and if we can't use regexp-searching
> that means we need to do real parsing and that's going to be *much* slower.

That, too, makes HTML less useful for reference-style use of a manual.