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: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:24:12 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86inc6kbyb.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515792230 7527 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2018 21:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:23:50 +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 Fri Jan 12 22:23:46 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 1ea6ne-0001NH-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:23:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6pe-0007gv-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:25:46 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.unit0.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:GxrgMD1HWGNEsGNWVcMfM4ggFuk= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221554 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:115671 Archived-At: Bob Proulx wrote: > Unfortunately info searching being > interactive I don't know of a way to > benchmark it. I can only say that the time > between invoking a search and the display of > the match is so fast that I find it > imperceptible. It "feels" like 0.05 seconds > or faster. (I played with "time sleep 0.05" > and numbers in that range felt about the same > as searching for random things in the emacs > info manual.) At that speed even if search in > a raw text file was faster in absolute time > I just wouldn't care because it is well below > my interactive threshold of noticing any > delay at all. What I can see, info, i.e., the framework, is just a bunch of sparsely annotated and highlighted hypertext. Because I don't spend a lot of time with info, and isn't active with it myself, I do not care about the markup. As for the interconnectivity, I was never fond of moving back and forth by hitting any other buttons than those on my keyboard, which I don't think need re-wiring for the purpose of browsing documentation. So to me, I can just as well, or better actually, access the entire manual of a piece of software by means of a huge text file. It is more honest. No gleaming links that lures you into doing something else just because you can. No new keystrokes to learn and no new hooks to fill with Elisp. Same old - great - stuff to use. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573