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: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:21:21 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87wtryqffi.fsf@jurta.org> References: <002301c52e18$c9b014a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200503211349.j2LDnxX12741@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <003401c52e20$d6f79c70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <87hdj4vppf.fsf@jurta.org> <87br9begh1.fsf@jurta.org> <877jjy4ij3.fsf@jurta.org> <200503231419.j2NEJcL00651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87k6nyz8xn.fsf@jurta.org> <200503231703.j2NH3BN03704@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111610206 21016 80.91.229.2 (23 Mar 2005 20:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 21:36:45 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DECX2-0004pj-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:32:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DECje-0004gz-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DECim-0004aL-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DECie-0004Us-24 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DECid-0004U4-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=MXR-8.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DECSh-0003n2-Jt; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:28:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-194-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.194]) by MXR-8.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753344A320; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:28:04 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200503231703.j2NH3BN03704@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:03:11 -0600 (CST)") 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:35062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35062 > It is easy to add a test for Info-hide-note-references, but I think it > would be more convenient to skip the `*Note ' tag even when it is visible. > Searching for "not" is too tiresome when search stops at every cross > reference. > > A search for `not' is going to stop at many places. Searching should > be predictable. Please do not start adding tons of exceptions and > "exceptions to exceptions" to searching by trying to double guess the > user. > > A case-insensitive non-word search for `not' _should_ match `*Note'. `*Note' is a special tag, not part of the text. For instance, Web browsers don't display tags, and don't allow them to interfere while searching. Some browsers provide two search modes: search for text including link text, and separate mode to search only link text. And nobody asks for an ability to search for HTML tags like `