Re: C-h f now permanently loads ~2MB

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:27:00AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > C-h f (on primitives?) now apparently permanently loads a copy of the
>     > DOC file (~2MB) into a hidden buffer.
> 
>     Yes.  Tho, only if the source C directory is found.
>
> We need to rethink whether this feature is a good idea.

It's a _great_ idea if you're hacking on emacs.  I used to constantly be
annoyed by the task of trying to find in which source file an emacs C
function was implemented (I've always found TAGS very clunky to use, so I
never really used it very much), but now it's almost trivial.

If the 2MB buffer is a huge concern, then enable it with a variable, and make
the default `off'.

For me, 2MB is an insignificant amount of memory in something like emacs that
is important and which I only usally run once.

-Miles
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