andreasg@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Andreas Girgensohn) (02/05/90)
In article <47290@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes: >P.P.S. One particular complaint about GNU Emacs 18.55 (and all previous > versions that I've used): the apropos command is nearly useless. It > takes far to long to operate even on the fastest machines. When I > use apropos in jove the first screen full of information is out almost > immediately after I type the return. Grumble, grumble ... (If you > decide to follow this point up you should probably change the subject > to something like ``GNU emacs apropos is too slow.'') I disagree. I'm using GNU Emacs 18.55 on a DEC station. Apropos took less than 2 seconds even for keywords like "indent". There was no delay at all for keywords with less information (e.g., "print"). Andreas Girgensohn andreasg@boulder.colorado.edu
baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur) (02/05/90)
In article <47290@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes: >P.P.S. One particular complaint about GNU Emacs 18.55 (and all previous > versions that I've used): the apropos command is nearly useless. It > takes far to long to operate even on the fastest machines. When I > use apropos in jove the first screen full of information is out almost > immediately after I type the return. Grumble, grumble ... (If you > decide to follow this point up you should probably change the subject > to something like ``GNU emacs apropos is too slow.'') I disagree with this. GNU emacs apropos is acceptible on my UNIXPC and SUN 3/50. It is slower than JOVE, but there are a lot more commands too. I'll take the loss in speed for the gain in flexibility. -- steve baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM A computer which cannot run GNU emacs is not worth using.