From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:15:25 +0300 Message-ID: References: <461A52A6.3050209@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176154106 14399 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 21:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 23:27:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HayPi-0002xn-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:16:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HayTY-0005os-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HayTM-0005on-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HayTK-0005oP-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HayTK-0005oM-HM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HayPT-0000wt-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-255-228.inter.net.il [83.130.255.228]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CHM84989 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:15:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <461A52A6.3050209@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42536 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:50:14 +0200 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Normal Emacs completion. I have actually never used that in Info ;-) Probably because it never worked in Emacs's Info until a year or so ago, when Stefan (I think) implemented it, to be consistent with the stand-alone Info reader (where TAB completion in index search worked since day one). > Yes, that seems useful. I normally just use C-s in Info to free text > search across nodes. Index search is much more efficient that C-s. > It is does not take very long time to do this (if you know what you > are looking for, of course). Index search is for using the manual as a reference, and in that case you normally have some idea about what you are looking for.