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Message-ID: <971536df0911011504j2a347b20r9936b3c0c05d7277@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-01T23:04:20Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)
In-Reply-To: <4AEE11FC.70102@stats.uwo.ca>

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?