Re: [vile] online help-file

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, J. Chris Coppick wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Paul Fox wrote:
> >
> > > thomas wrote:
> > > > I'm considering moving vile.hlp to html (and generating the vile.hlp
> > > > file used within the editor from that).  Here's a very first try at
> > > > converting it (no hyperlinks yet):
> > > >
> > > > http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile-hlp.html
>
> I think this will break the Help extension, but that's not the end
> of the world.  Someone remind me to fix it later.

Offhand, the candidates for generating the text file seem to be lynx and 
(e)links(2), which both put the main-headings in column 1, which seems to 
be all that Help.pm needs.  (I mention elinks since 2-3 of the tables 
exceed lynx's ability to look nice - in particular the one for built-in 
functions, though on the other hand relying on nice but undocumented 
behavior isn't good either ;-).

I did look at w3m also, but it puts everything in column 1...

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