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 23:19:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <003701c52efd$72bf2420$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <87ll8fd1ix.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111530923 23287 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 22:35:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 23:35:22 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDrxR-0001Ko-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:34:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsEo-0002AM-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsDP-0001lZ-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsDN-0001kn-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsCk-0001XG-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDrjB-00065n-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:19:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDrjA-0003CE-6V; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:19:56 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87ll8fd1ix.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:14 +0200") 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:35000 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35000 Juri Linkov writes: > "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. If info formats the text and replaces "*note" with something else, it can [expletive deleted] well equip it with some text property or similar for finding the cross reference. This would actually speed up the cross reference finding. No need to foul up search for other modes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum