Re: info browser test framework (was Improving standalone info usability)

2014-03-24 Thread Karl Berry
screen scraping or reading output of program (terminal control sequences) I was suggesting precisely to avoid any such "interpretation" of info output by running the tests non-interactively (e.g., input via --dribble), and compare the output from info dumping nodes to "expected" output, as

Re: info browser test framework (was Improving standalone info usability)

2014-03-24 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Would you like to set up a (long-overdue) test framework for info? I'm > guessing that with --dribble, --strict-node-location, and other options, > it should be possible to run tests in batch. I will look into it. Automatic testing of a (real

Re: Improving standalone info usability

2014-03-22 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Gavin, Charset conversion is implemented. Thanks for all the work, and description of the trade-offs. It seems sound to me, FWIW. We should await Sergey's review to commit. The attachment anchors.info is a test file to check that anchors point Would you like to set up a (long-overdu

Re: Improving standalone info usability

2014-01-31 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi. Karl Berry ha escrit: > In general, what you see as a defect ("notation for a computer"), I see > as a positive ("plain and simple text"), i.e., for me it's not broken > and doesn't need to be fixed. I guess I'm just too much of a dinosaur. For what it's worth, that's my feeling too. That

Re: Improving standalone info usability

2014-01-31 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:25:36 + > From: Gavin Smith > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > P.S. Regarding your other work, on UTF-8 vs. ISO, it still seems to me > > that in principle this should be addressed at the terminal level, > > instead of every single cmdline application having to deal w

Re: Improving standalone info usability

2014-01-30 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Gavin. > > I can certainly appreciate all the work you have put in, and I am happy > to hear from others on the subject. But for myself, I'm afraid I simply > do not like the results. (I don't like them in Emacs either, not that > anyone a

Re: Improving standalone info usability

2014-01-30 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Gavin. I can certainly appreciate all the work you have put in, and I am happy to hear from others on the subject. But for myself, I'm afraid I simply do not like the results. (I don't like them in Emacs either, not that anyone asked me.) However, since I personally never use the standalone