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RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . .
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: breadcrumbs for Info . . . . . . |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:46:03 -0700 |
> > However, I don't think that the current breadcrumbs
> > approach is a problem or that the other (TOC) approach
> > would be better. Why? Because most manuals are not
> > deep. I picked the deepest node I found in the Emacs manual
> > (by looking at the TOC) as the example I sent. And I see
> > no performance problem with that depth.
>
> When nodes are in different files, visiting all ancestor nodes means
> visiting several files that is slow on slow machines/connections.
> For instance, the first node in the file info/emacs-4 is:
>
> File: emacs, Node: Fortran Indent, Next: Fortran
> Comments, Prev: Fortran Motion, Up: Fortran
>
> 31.13.2 Fortran Indentation
>
> So to display this node, it needs to open the file info/emacs-3 that
> contains its parent node Fortran, and the top file info/emacs-1.
Yes, I know that. But can you point to a particular node in a particular manual
that you find is too slow?
I checked (using `T') all of the manuals that come by default with Emacs on
Windows - I found no nodes deeper than 4. I didn't check each level 4 node in
each manual, but I checked several, and I see no performance problem. Perhaps
you can find a level 4 node whose levels 1-3 are in different subfiles, and you
can check whether it is too slow?
IOW, is this a real problem in practice or just a hypothetical problem?
> > We have only a certain number of possible heading levels,
> > and it works fine for those, AFAICT.
- 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 <=
- 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, 2008/06/12
- 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