From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs minimised
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:52:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y943bvoq.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3lm04a0s0.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> Info is good, if I want to study the program for 15 minutes or more.
> But for quick lookups, man pages are still much better.
I don't quite agree. Info pages have a real, interactive index [1] --
this is really the killer feature that nearly all other documentation
systems lack.
`i <term>' usually takes me to correct spot instantly -- it's much
faster and more convenient than scrolling through huge man-pages.
If `i' fails, then there's the regexp search `s', a feature also missing
in many other formats.
[1] Not a fake, auto-generated one like Microsoft Windows help, or _no_
index at all like man-pages, or HTML documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-26 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 15:16 Emacs minimised Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 15:58 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-21 17:02 ` Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 20:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 21:26 ` Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 21:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 22:01 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-25 14:32 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-02-25 17:23 ` Kester Clegg
2003-02-25 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-26 2:52 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-02-26 4:31 ` Unknown
[not found] ` <mailman.2406.1046200218.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-26 17:19 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-03-01 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-27 15:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-04 16:42 ` Kester Clegg
2003-03-04 16:58 ` Lucas
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