From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:57:06 +0000 Message-ID: <87po6eaawd.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515801366 10307 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2018 23:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 00:56:02 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 1ea9As-0001Vc-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:55:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea9Cr-00068Z-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea9CB-00066k-HW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea9C8-0006EE-Gp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:60340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea9C8-0006DF-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A574B98B3A for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 20754 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2018 23:57:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.88.156]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 12 Jan 2018 23:57:06 -0000 In-Reply-To: <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:36:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 81.17.249.8 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:115676 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >>> Info, with all those tiny nodes hanging >>> everywhere like ornaments from >>> a paleo-Christmas tree on Terra Prima, can >>> be painfully slow to navigate. >> >> On the contrary, I find Info extremely fast. > > Not so fast. Because searching a plain text > file is faster still. > > Perhaps your perception of info as fast is > a function of your own velocity? Searching info is very fast on the computers I use. Have you tried it with emacs -Q? I wonder if you have customized something that's made it slower. I doubt that using fundamental mode would be much faster. Internally, Info search uses normal isearch regexp functions. BR, Robert Thorpe