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: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:55:42 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515707959 11687 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 21:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:59:19 +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 Thu Jan 11 22:59:15 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 1eZksM-0002Fj-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZkuM-0003P0-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:01:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:z2c2BYMOWM9YC66IsjzVyZdIR+Y= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221548 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:115665 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> No, why would I want to? >> >> I think my desire to do it is a consequence >> of everything that has ever happened since >> Big Bang, ~13.8 billion years ago, when the >> array of discontinued proto-algorithms from >> the religious-mythical era finally ended >> their cycle of complete disintegration? > > Joking aside ... joking? > 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 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. > And I haven't gunzipped them (why would I?). Because otherwise that Elisp won't work :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573