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> From: Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac@lrde.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:42:00 +0100
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> 
> "Phillip Lord" <Phillip.Lord@newcastle.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > It's not doing what you want, but "i local variables" will do an index
> > lookup, which will get you what you want. 
> 
>   Indeed, it doesn't do what I want :-)

Why not?  `i' _is_ the best way of searching for something in an Info
manual.