On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 04:17:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > > Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:43:20 +0000 > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > > > > . the stand-alone Info reader is a much leaner program than Emacs > > > > > > Who cares? On modern computers, Emacs is relatively lean, and almost > > > everyone who would use 'info' is likely to have Emacs installed. > > > Using an emacs-server of course helps. > > > > I care. I have Emacs installed but don't habitually use it. "info" > > starts up pretty much instantaneously (in fact, it is much quicker > > than "man" - "man" always seems to take about half a second to > > load regardless of how many times you run it, whereas info has no > > noticeable delay the second time you run it). I just ran "emacs" > > at the command line to see how long that took to start up, and I > > counted 31 seconds for it to load up. > > That is unusually slow, perhaps you have a lot in your customizations?
I think it's just that I have a slow hard drive and also have Chromium open all the time. Just tried it again and it was more like 7 seconds. > But in any case, expecting people to start using Emacs just to read > Info manuals sounds too far-fetched to me. They are much more likely > to use their favorite Web browser.
