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RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . .
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . . |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:42:20 -0700 |
> > IOW, is this a real problem in practice or just a
> > hypothetical problem?
>
> There were reports about Info taking substantial time to read
> Info subfiles on slow connections. You can search for e.g.
> "Info slow connection" keywords and find posts like
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/17436/focus=18058
> I don't know how often such situations happen nowadays.
>
> Anyway, Info already scans the whole manual on the first visit
> to find the index nodes, so it could build an internal node tree
> as well on the same pass.
I will let others debate and decide that.
> There is also another visual problem: when Info-hide-note-references
> is nil, the displayed breadcrumbs line is not nice looking:
>
> *Note Top:: > *Note Files:: > *Note Saving:: > *Note Backup::
That's a bug. I had tried to take care of that in the patch, but I missed some
parts. Please try the attached patch, which should fix it.
I also fixed an infinite recursion bug that occurred sometimes, due to
Info-goto-node calling Info-fontify-node and (from the patch) vice versa.
The change log remains the same.
info-el-2008-06-12.patch
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- breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/10
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Juri Linkov, 2008/06/10
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/10
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Juri Linkov, 2008/06/11
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/11
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/11
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Juri Linkov, 2008/06/11
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Miles Bader, 2008/06/11
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . .,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/12
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/13
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/06/13
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/13
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/06/13
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/13
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/06/13
- RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Drew Adams, 2008/06/13
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Juri Linkov, 2008/06/15
- Re: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . ., Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/13