Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:31:58 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Martin Str|mberg cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: The Faq In-Reply-To: <7lncag$2es$1@news.luth.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.