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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: texinfo users: infosim.el
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Date: 15 Sep 88 04:20:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: pdc@otter.hple.hp.com (Damian Cugley)

In article <610010@otter.hple.hp.com>, pdc@otter (Damian Cugley) writes:
>		        I like Texinfo a lot as a computer-manual
>formatter.  The standalone info-reader - replacing the man command - is
>apparantly almost ready for release.

I suspect that not too many people use texinfo.  But if you do, I have
a first draft for what I call Infosim mode.

This lets you read a texinfo file rather like an Info file.  Info mode
commands like `n' and `u' etc will work if point is at the upper left
corner, and otherwise `C-c C-n' and `C-c C-u' etc will work, while the
`n' and `u' etc will be self-insertion.

infosim.el needs a lot of hacking before I'd consider it worth releasing,
and I'm not going to hack on it except for my own needs.  But what's
there is pretty decent stuff.  Send e-mail if interested--it's only 30K.

>				       A fully-fledged GNU system might
>not have man, nroff or troff at all...

How sweet it is.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"Nil sounds like a lot of kopins! I never got paid nil before!" --Groo