Re: About the Gnome Help browser

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Marc Ewing wrote:
> 
> > the help system.  For example, before *any* URL parsing happens,
> > the reference string is passed through something like
> > resolveShortcuts() that rewrites "man:ls" to "file:/usr/man/man1/ls.1"
> > based on its configuration and what it find on the filesystem.
> 
> What about being able to referenbce a certain node within an info
> document? Something like "info:bash/Job Control" - that will take me to
> the Job Control node within bash info documentation.

Of course.

> I don't understand why this help browser can not be extended a little to
> include man: and info: - just because they are not standard nobody says
> that we can not do it.

It can be.  I think you are misreading things.  We will have man:
and info: (as well as others).  The question is only how they will be
implemented underneath.

-Marc