From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . .
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:04:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxrkltma.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009d01c8cb55$13d53e20$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:52:43 -0700")
> Breadcrumbs are an orientation and navigation aid for hypertext. They tell you
> where you are in the node hierarchy and let you go directly to any ancestor
> node. The orientation aid alone is very helpful, particularly when you are
> following cross-reference links - it lets you know exactly where in the document
> structure you have arrived.
This is a nice feature, but I think its implementation is too heavy:
to display just one node it has to visit several other nodes. It would be
more optimal to build a tree of all Info nodes after visiting the first
node and to use this cached structure during displaying an Info node.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 23:52 breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . Drew Adams
2008-06-11 0:04 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-06-11 3:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-11 9:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-11 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-11 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-11 22:40 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-12 2:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-12 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 6:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 8:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-13 13:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 17:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-13 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 19:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-13 20:10 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-15 18:19 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-13 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 18:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-14 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 10:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-06-13 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-13 22:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-13 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 9:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-14 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-14 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-15 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-15 7:33 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-15 18:23 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-15 19:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-15 0:28 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-15 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-15 18:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-15 7:55 ` Drew Adams
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