From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:38:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Message-ID: <7vr6mheem0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <85bqdlj1lh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

>> So stop this *insane* insistence of emacs. You should learn to just
>> assume that people don't even have it installed!
>
> We were discussing Texinfo, not Emacs.  Please focus.

I would welcome if the set of our documentation output formats
included *.info pages.

However, as the input format, texinfo _is_ painful.  AsciiDoc is
100x easier.  I've written documentaiton in texinfo format in
the past, and one thing I found quite painful was maintaining
the node header with prev/next links --- tedious, error prone
and boring.  There is no good editor to help you maintain them
other than Emacs texinfo mode as far as I know.