Re: info-find-source

[Robert Thorpe]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>>> 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 contrary, I find Info extremely fast.
>
> Not so fast. Because searching a plain text
> file is faster still.
>
> Perhaps your perception of info as fast is
> a function of your own velocity?

Searching info is very fast on the computers I use.

Have you tried it with emacs -Q?  I wonder if you have customized
something that's made it slower.

I doubt that using fundamental mode would be much faster.  Internally, Info
search uses normal isearch regexp functions.

BR,
Robert Thorpe