From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Info: Why is "note" hidden by "see"?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:56:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5oedbk4ak.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (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:
> (Sorry for making a new thread, i have deleted the old messages about this
> issue.)
>
> 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?
Seconded. The proposed "solutions" to this problem break a lot of
other things and gloss over the simple fact that the text should be
changed in the buffer, really.
The only reason I can imagine not to do so would be if info buffer
positions were stored somewhere as integers. But then one should
rather fix that instead of breaking every other package.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 16:56 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 [this message]
2005-03-22 17:38 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 23:24 ` Miles Bader
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