From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info: Why is "note" hidden by "see"? Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:14 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ll8fd1ix.fsf@jurta.org> References: <003701c52efd$72bf2420$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111513959 30401 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 17:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 18:52:38 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDnYO-0002g6-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDnpj-0005AV-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDnos-00050a-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDnop-0004zK-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDnoo-0004vn-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:09:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=MXR-5.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDnRd-0001gU-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-35-161-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.35.161]) by MXR-1.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CD810F7A2; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:45:25 +0200 (EET) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <003701c52efd$72bf2420$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:37:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:34978 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34978 "Lennart Borgman" 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/