> 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? 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.
