HyperSpec access from Emacs
Thomas F. Burdick
I'm taking a news-break because my Emacs went nuts and I had to quit
it. So ... what do people here use to access the HyperSpec? I've
been using Erik Naggum's package that comes with ILISP, and having it
send the URL to W3, because it's easier than dealing with Netscape,
especially when I'm using a remote Emacs (it takes just as long to
send a URL to the local NS as it does for W3 to render the page).
Maybe it's just me and I have a knack for screwing up W3, but on 3
systems, I've had problems where after running W3 for a long time, if
I use a pull-down menu, Emacs will cons for around 40Mb (really bad
with its crappy GC).
I've been using the HyperSpec a lot more than normal, what with my
writing a Lisp compiler and all. Is this a weird problem unique to
me? Do other people just use NS? I'm not looking for Emacs help as
much as I'm wondering how other people access the HS.
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Pierre R. Mai
> I've been using the HyperSpec a lot more than normal, what with my
> writing a Lisp compiler and all. Is this a weird problem unique to
> me? Do other people just use NS? I'm not looking for Emacs help as
> much as I'm wondering how other people access the HS.
I've been using a slightly modified[1] version of Erik's hyperspec.el
together with W3 on XEmacs 19--21 for several years, without
encountering the problem you mentioned. My Emacs sessions usually run
for a couple of days, sometimes weeks, and I only restart them for
non-Emacs related reasons...
Regs, Pierre.
Footnotes:
[1] The modification is just the addition of a command to throw up
the TOC, and hence shouldn't have an influence on the effects
you've been observing.
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Petter Gustad
> This is a little off-topic, sorry (I made a related post to g.e.help).
> I'm taking a news-break because my Emacs went nuts and I had to quit
> it. So ... what do people here use to access the HyperSpec? I've
> been using Erik Naggum's package that comes with ILISP, and having it
> send the URL to W3, because it's easier than dealing with Netscape,
> especially when I'm using a remote Emacs (it takes just as long to
> send a URL to the local NS as it does for W3 to render the page).
> Maybe it's just me and I have a knack for screwing up W3, but on 3
> systems, I've had problems where after running W3 for a long time, if
> I use a pull-down menu, Emacs will cons for around 40Mb (really bad
> with its crappy GC).
I haven't observed this, but I reboot my machine from time to time
(when the kids want to play games in Windows). I replaced the
follow-url (or whatever, I don't have the original source at hand)
with:
(require 'w3)
...
(w3-fetch-other-window (concat common-lisp-hyperspec-root "Body/" (car entry)))
...
Then I bind common-lisp-hyperspec to a function key. I never use the
menus.
Petter
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