From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-forward and Info-search Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:59:00 +0900 Message-ID: References: <16942.42643.503788.488893@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.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 1110355483 17457 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 08:04:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 09:04:42 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wBF-0007ty-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:04:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPs-0001jz-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPO-0001hQ-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPE-0001bO-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPD-0001a2-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.201] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8w5t-0007UZ-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so248347wri for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:59:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=p9XCESy9KL8ILLTpWFyTi7Ade3qKNkNdS7JrgnwZtpEfrKbT5GZcRYUKzHD0ko7rQJpdAzIftZ0XqxDK+A8cM0ZqK0lcfsFFpSftDYL0EdyYfNwGLItI7mU8wJ4I3D67GfZwbl8zBnRgHgE/SIUmUx6diirdfXUuYoaA1VjUvv8= Original-Received: by 10.54.19.5 with SMTP id 5mr620823wrs; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:59:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:59:00 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <16942.42643.503788.488893@farnswood.snap.net.nz> 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:34357 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34357 On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:32:35 +1300, Nick Roberts wrote: > If I look for something in an Info manual, I use Info-search (s) and if I > looked for something on a particular page, I would use isearch-forward > (C-s). However, now isearch-forward now also searches the subsequent manual > pages and takes me away from the page I'm interested in. 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. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.