From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:15:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pnpmn2a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461A52A6.3050209@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:50:14 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-08 23:07 info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 6:57 ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1850.1176102070.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 12:05 ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 12:48 ` info-lookup-symbol Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.1864.1176123114.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 14:20 ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 14:50 ` info-lookup-symbol Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-04-09 15:27 ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-05 17:35 info-lookup-symbol Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 7:51 ` info-lookup-symbol Juri Linkov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=u4pnpmn2a.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.