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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:04:09 -0500

      The Info readers read the top-level dir
    >     file, get the list of Info manuals to look in, then go look at each of
    >     their Top menus to virtually construct the list of whatever the user 
is
    >     interested in.  Do I have the general idea right?
    > 
    > Partly.  It would not read all of the dir file, just a subnode.

    That would require a fundamental change in the Info reader.
    Currently, both Emacs and the stand-alone reader cannot read a single
    node,

We are miscommunicating.  You're talking literally about
reading a file into memory.  I was talking about reading text
to find which manuals to look in.




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