| Guido van Rossum | 5dd52d3 | 1995-04-10 11:47:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This directory contains a browser written in Python for "Info files" |
| 2 | as used by the Emacs documentation system. The browser requires that |
| 3 | Python is built with the "stdwin" option and runs under X11 or the |
| 4 | Mac window system. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Now you can read Info files even if you can't spare the memory, time or |
| 7 | disk space to run Emacs. (I have used this extensively on a Macintosh |
| 8 | with 1 Megabyte main memory and a 20 Meg harddisk.) |
| 9 | |
| 10 | You can give this to someone with great fear of complex computer |
| 11 | systems, as long as they can use a mouse. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Another reason to use this is to encourage the use of Info for on-line |
| 14 | documentation of software that is not related to Emacs or GNU. |
| 15 | (In particular, I plan to redo the Python and STDWIN documentation |
| 16 | in texinfo.) |
| 17 | |
| 18 | The main program is in file "ib.py"; this accepts a file name and a |
| 19 | node name as optional command line arguments, i.e., its usage is |
| 20 | |
| 21 | python ib.py [file [node]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Configuration: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | - The pathname of the directory (or directories) containing |
| 27 | the standard Info files should be set by editing the |
| 28 | value assigned to INFOPATH in module ifile.py. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - The default font should be set by editing the value of FONT |
| 31 | in this module (ibrowse.py). |
| 32 | |
| 33 | - For fastest I/O, you may look at BLOCKSIZE and a few other |
| 34 | constants in ifile.py. |