From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info: Why is "note" hidden by "see"? Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:56:35 +0100 Message-ID: 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 1111510841 18525 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 17:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 18:00:40 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDmig-0002EC-Lu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:59:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDn01-00007K-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDmy0-0007RE-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDmxp-0007Ku-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDmxo-0007Id-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:14:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDmgf-0005nK-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDmgR-0003eI-Bo; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:56:52 -0500 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/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 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:34972 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34972 "Lennart Borgman" 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