From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:04:09 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403211718.i2LHIpY06619@f7.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080011446 13581 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 03:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 04:10:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5cJN-0006mc-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:10:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5cJM-0003Rb-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:10:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cJP-0005H7-BQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cHz-0004Pq-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cHQ-00044J-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cHQ-00044F-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:08:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5cD3-00037V-7C; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:04:09 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 22 Mar 2004 09:26:13 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20760 The Info readers read the top-level dir > file, get the list of Info manuals to look in, then go look at each of > their Top menus to virtually construct the list of whatever the user is > interested in. Do I have the general idea right? > > Partly. It would not read all of the dir file, just a subnode. That would require a fundamental change in the Info reader. Currently, both Emacs and the stand-alone reader cannot read a single node, We are miscommunicating. You're talking literally about reading a file into memory. I was talking about reading text to find which manuals to look in.