From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:55:05 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86h8rmdhie.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmhyk2qy.fsf@zoho.com> <87mv1ia0et.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <86a7xhgnag.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6beoxh.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516046321 21389 195.159.176.226 (15 Jan 2018 19:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:58:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 20:58:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebAtk-0004Ph-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:58:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebAvk-0001nC-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:00:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yrF/S2wbyWspk6jOjImxIRN1I3s= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221625 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115742 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> This is the nature of this kind of search. >> If you are searching for an item that >> appears several times, and an instance >> somewhere in the middle is the desired one, >> then yes, search will have to visit each >> preceding instance if it starts at the >> beginning of the document. This situation is >> a part of, but not restricted to, the >> described "one file" method. However in time >> you will be more sophisticated with your >> searches. It'll also give you a spacial >> awareness (spacial as in "space", not >> special) of the document and what it >> contains, which will benefit searching - >> your use of it - even more. > > Yes, I could train myself to do that. > > But... I have `i' in Info! So why train > myself to do something my computer (using the > information Emacs developers put in) can > do better? Because you have already trained yourself to edit text and code and that happens every day from now on as well. No matter how much you train with Info, you will never get to the text/code level. And when you "train" with text and code, you do amazing stuff - well, hopefully, but almost certainly something more interesting than how to navigate a browser... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573