Re: Slow Info startup

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Chong Yidong wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:

>> I have several Info directories specified to Info-directory-list
>> and there are a lot of entries in those dir files.  Recently, I
>> found it takes a long time to start up Info.  It is caused by
>> the change of Info-fontify-node made at 2005-11-25.  Is there a
>> way to make it fast besides reducing Info-directory-list?

> The change was to correctly fontify Info buffers opened with
> Info-on-current-buffer.  If we are willing to sacrifice a little
> correctness, there is one change that can speed things up.  See the
> attached patch.

Thanks.  I tried it and confirmed it makes the Info start fast
as before.

> The side-effect of this is that Info will fontify
> incorrectly in one corner case.  This happens when you call
> Info-on-current-buffer on a file named (e.g.) "elisp" outside of
> Info-directory list, or a non-file buffer named "elisp".  When you
> browse around, your Info history will be recorded as though you are
> visiting the real "elisp" info file, at /usr/share/info/elisp or
> wherever.  If you later visit the "real" info file, those links will
> be fontified as "previously visited" links.   Maybe that's an
> acceptable situation, however.

It seems ok if those "elisp"s are the same, if anything, that's
acceptable on me.