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: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:42:38 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86inc4g7b5.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> <86inc6kbyb.fsf@zoho.com> <867esmk28h.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515919422 21057 195.159.176.226 (14 Jan 2018 08:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 08:43:42 +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 Sun Jan 14 09:43:38 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 1eadt6-0004tj-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:43:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eadv5-0000M2-4S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:45:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5QK2zf4uPxeEjwFPfFd7k7OIbgw= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221599 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:115716 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> Another example where info is slower is this >> very common situation. 1. You look something >> up with info and use it. 2. You look >> something else up and use that. 3, or I mean >> 1b - because the first thing didn't quite >> work! Now, with info, you have to navigate >> back to that node to see what it really >> said. And maybe between steps 1 and 2, you >> looked up something else still, which you >> didn't use, which might even belong to some >> different program, etc. etc.! > > `M-n' (`clone-buffer') is your friend. I'm aware of `clone-buffer'. But actually it was you who once told me about it so I can give you the credit anyway. However all these examples only emphasize my argument! I know that you can do a lot of stuff with the info browser. But with a text file, you either don't have to do it, *or* you can do it, only not with whatever unknown interface the Info browser provides, but with what you use every day to edit, search, and view text and code, i.e. stuff that you are already embarrassingly familiar with! So let's put it another way, what *advantages* are there to the info browser? N.B. here we are only talking about the browser, not the style or organization of the info documentation itself, which, as is evident by this discussion, thru its uniformity can be accessed in many different ways. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573