I've updated deb-view.el to handle viewing html files with w3-mode. w3 can be found via anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/elisp/w3. For use within deb-view, I didn't need to install the "extras" or "icons" that w3 recommends.
I had considered something special for INFO files, but info files are pretty well readable as-is so it wasn't worth the effort. Here is a shortened version of my original announcement: I've written a tool for emacs that allows one to browse deb files. It's nice to peek at a package file and read the doc, man pages, html files, install scripts, file list, etc, without installing it first. You can even copy files out of a deb archive if you want to! Why emacs? Because most of the smarts to do this stuff was already in emacs. I just gathered it together in a simple but clever way for Debian users! ;-) Emacs users will recognize "tar-mode", the emacs feature that that I'm exploiting. You can get the latest deb-view.el from here: http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el Sorry, I don't have anonymous ftp for you. The file is about 13KB. If you can't get at it, I can email it to you. -- ...RickM...
