[ESS] Feature Idea: open help in browser when viewing it in an emacs buffer
Rodney Sparapani
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Mon Oct 31 16:32:19 CET 2011
Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>
> Have anyone already given a thought of how to implement html help
> directly in emacs? And which text browser should it be based - w3,
> w3m, lynx, links, Elinks?
>
> Vitalie.
>
Hi Vitalie:
For performance and aesthetic reasons, I have never liked web browsing
in emacs. If you need a new browser release every couple of months like
Microsoft, Apple and Google are making, then you realize that web
browsing is a moving target and expecting an emacs package to keep up
with that is not realistic IMHO. Those companies are paying for
contributions and they can't keep up with new features/bugs. What is
the poor, filthy emacs lisper to do? emacs is going through a slow
transition to more modern, web-friendly technologies like fc, Unicode,
URLs, etc., but there is no light at the end of the tunnel (except the
oncoming train perhaps).
Rodney
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