Re: About the Gnome Help browser

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com> writes:
> Marc Ewing writes:
>  > 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.
> 
> Maybe treat it like a networking stack?  At the bottom layer you'll
> have methods for fetching via ftp, fsp, http, and files.  Next layer
> up will do macro substitutions (info: becomes file:/usr/info, man:
> becomes file:/usr/man, searching MANPATH as needed), calls the right
> transfer method code, and manufactures a MIME type if the transfer
> method didn't give you one (e.g. text/nroff for a man page, or runs
> /usr/bin/file for a file, and/or examines the extension).

We already have this (something like it).

> And maybe the layer above that searches all the known system
> documentation?  Or maybe that should be a transfer method:
> search:keyword+keyword+keyword?

This is in the plan.

-Marc