From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:21:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtryqffi.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503231703.j2NH3BN03704@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:03:11 -0600 (CST)")
> 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 `<a href='.
So I'm sure many people will like to skip `*Note' in Info too.
With my patch this is easily configurable with only one function
which can be redefined to match `*Note', or to skip it, or to search
only inside cross-reference text, or anything else.
Since Emacs Info browser is too controversial piece of software,
let's leave the current default with only one change to skip "see ".
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-23 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 13:20 Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?) Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 13:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21 14:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 19:27 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-21 20:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 14:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 22:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-23 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 13:08 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 14:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-23 15:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 17:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-23 20:21 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-03-23 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-23 21:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-23 21:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-23 22:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-24 1:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2005-03-24 0:21 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-24 1:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-25 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 21:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-24 5:18 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 20:26 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-24 0:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 0:59 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 1:10 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-23 10:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-23 11:01 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-23 22:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-23 23:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-23 23:57 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-25 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 12:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-10 0:19 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-10 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-10 4:19 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-10 4:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-21 23:20 ` Drew Adams
2005-03-22 4:57 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 10:51 ` David Kastrup
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