Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/05/03:35:38
On 4 Jul 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
> : The best way I know of is to install the Info version of the FAQ
> : (djgppfaq.info from v2/faq211b.zip) and use the index-search command of
> : the Info browser. Type "info faq" from the DOS prompt. Once you are
> : inside Info, press `i' and type the subject you are looking for. (Info
> : has the completion feature, so you can type just part of the subject and
> : press TAB to have it pop a list of possible completions.) When you press
> : [Enter], Info will show the first place whose index includes the string
> : you typed. Thereafter, pressing a comma `,' repeatedly will show the
> : other places.
>
> Or for those that is used to emacs, "C-s" followed by the word to
> search for and additional "C-s"es to find the next occurance.
C-s, a.k.a. incremental-search (which info.exe supports as well, btw),
is IMHO much less efficient means of finding information than the `i'
command. A well-indexed document will usually land you at the right
place in one or two attempts if you use `i', whereas it might take a
lot of C-s's to get to a section that is near the end of the document.
I generally recommend to use C-s only if `i' fails.
The Info reader built into Emacs has the index-search command as well,
just press `i', like in the standalone info.exe. My only gripe about
the Emacs implementation of `i' is that it lacks completion, so you
need to type more, and don't have a fast way of knowing whether the
subject you are typing at all exists in the index.
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