From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-forward and Info-search Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:56:42 +1300 Message-ID: <16943.64954.585396.893418@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <16942.42643.503788.488893@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87ekeot3th.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110441956 21845 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2005 08:05:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 09:05:56 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9Ifl-0007ag-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9Iub-0003Ct-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ItC-0002Xn-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9Isx-0002Qb-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9Isw-0002NX-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D9IZ9-0003Ug-6X; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:58:43 -0500 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p194-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.194]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834D148FAEF; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:58:39 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6076C62FBE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87ekeot3th.fsf@jurta.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34405 > > I think it would be a lot less annoying if it at least changed the > > prompt to say what it was doing, in the manner of a wrapped isearch > > ("I-search in node ...: " ?). > > > > Maybe it could even act more like wrapped i-search, and fail once, > > before proceeding to the next info page if you hit C-s again. > > It seems this is the most reasonable default behavior. > But I also think it would be too annoying to fail before > leaving every Info node. It would be better to fail only > in the first Info node where isearch was started. Of course, > this doesn't preclude creating at least four different options > for the `Info-isearch-search' variable: > > - never fail (current behavior) > - fail only in the node where isearch was started (proposed default) > - fail in every node visited by isearch (somebody may like this) > - fail and wrap to the beginning of the current node (old behavior) This sounds a like a good idea. The proposed default would also be my preferred behaviour. Me> > I've also noticed that if you abort a search (C-s) before it gets to the Me> > end of the manual the formatting of the links on the current page gets Me> > messed up. > This looks like a bug, but I can't reproduce it. Could you provide > a precise receipt to reproduce it? I can't seem to reproduce it. All the links after a certain point (where the search had reached displayed as ordinary text like this: Important Text-Changing Commands * Mark:: The mark: how to delimit a ``region'' of text. * Killing:: Killing (cutting) text. * Yanking:: Recovering killed text. Moving text. (Pasting.) If I can remember exactly what I did, I'll file a bug report. Nick