Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

[Christopher Reid Palmer <chrisp@dusk.bitstream.net>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> But I can still see the need of a hypertext system. What would be nice
> would be a unified documentation browser system -- info, man, HOWTO --
> which would work as a web browser (more like lynx than Emacs, barf). What
> would be AMAZING would be to use a search engine and a database to
> reformat the man pages to incorporate hyperlinks to all related documents,
> and also be able to view info pages. The HOWTOs would be harder, but nice
> to do as well.
> 
> Has anyone started/finished a system like that?

This was precisely my idea. I'm still looking around to make sure no one
has already done it, since it seems so obvious. But if I can't find an
implementation, I'll do it myself.


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