From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-11T13:08:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby documentation discovery

Quoting phil@hagelb.org, on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:31:53AM +0900:
> "John Conrad" <john.emerson.conrad@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > It's not that I don't like hyperlinks - I love them! That's what I meant
> > when I said I was spoiled by the emacs style of self-documentation. However,
> > hyperlinks are most useful, IMO, if you are able to initally jump to a
> > specific starting point. Rather than always starting at the root and
> > clicking down from there.
> 
> On a related note, is it possible to get RDoc in GNU Info format? IMHO
> that really gives you the best of both worlds in terms of it being
> hyperlinked, searchable, and not making you switch out of the editor.
> 
> If no such thing exists, could someone comment on how difficult such a
> thing would be to implement? (I may smell a challenge here.)

Rdoc has a pretty flexible framework to output 'stuff'. I'd like gnu
info, too, might not be too hard, IF you know the .info format.

Sam