From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:43:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87shbbdqvl.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515771765 27095 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2018 15:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:42:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 27.0.50 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 Fri Jan 12 16:42:41 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 1ea1TW-0006GA-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:42:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea1VW-0004Wd-4T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea1Uz-0004VS-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:44:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea1Uu-0008RI-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:38440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea1Uu-0008Ou-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:44:00 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C63E6CD7; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:43:51 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wjinXLqqgjvV; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:43:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [83.13.149.242]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D8F61E6CB0; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:43:45 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:115667 Archived-At: On 2018-01-11, at 22:55, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> I have never had a need to look at raw info >> files (outside info). > > 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. > On the other hand, if you get the "raw" file, > which is actually just a bunch of marked-up > text, you can make a search for a term using > your everyday search-mechanism, and find every > occurence of that term in the entire body > of documentation. Why not just use `C-s'? (Or, even better, `i'?) I use both all the time, and they let me search through the whole manual (not only the current node). Best, -- Marcin Borkowski