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 05:17:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86po6beoxh.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmhyk2qy.fsf@zoho.com> <87mv1ia0et.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <86a7xhgnag.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515989912 7420 195.159.176.226 (15 Jan 2018 04:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:18:32 +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 05:18:28 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 1eawE7-0001WS-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eawG7-0000qE-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:20:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:euceQGfiWuKN5jdhDva0zjRLH7A= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221609 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:115726 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Seriously? Try C-s'ing the string > "interactive" your way to find out about the > (interactive) codes. > > In Emacs Lisp Reference: > > C-x n w M-x how-many RET interactive RET > > result: 515 hits. The "right" one is about > 1/3 down the list. 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. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573