From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Mon Nov  2 00:04:20 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:04:20 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)
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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help? ?One thing it did
> well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search. ?I
> would like to get those back, in the HTML help. ?Is there anything else?
>

The main thing I miss is the speed. On my Vista system with IE8 it
seems to come up slower than the chm based help.

Has anyone tried it with a text-based browser such as lynx to see if
it runs faster that way?  Is there an option to specify which browser
to use for help?



[Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)
Gabor Grothendieck