From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info: Why is "note" hidden by "see"?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ll8fd1ix.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003701c52efd$72bf2420$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:37:17 +0100")
"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> Maybe this is not the time to ask, but I simply do not understand why an
> overlay is used in the Info buffer to hide "note" and display "see". Why
> can't the text in the buffer be changed instead? Would not that be better
> for the search functions? Or does that give some new problems? Is the actual
> text in Info buffer important in some way?
"*note" text in Info buffer is important since Info uses it to find
cross references.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-22 16:37 Info: Why is "note" hidden by "see"? Lennart Borgman
2005-03-22 16:56 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 17:38 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-03-22 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 23:24 ` Miles Bader
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