Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:48:21PM CET: > it is not possible to use, say, backslash or brackets to > escape regex-active characters: `a\.', or `a[.]'. > > I think this is somewhat fixed now. The messages are not optimal, and > the searching seemed quite slow sometimes, but I don't want to spend > more time on it now. (As always, better patches welcome from anyone > interested in working on Info.)
Ok. The partial (and thus invalid) regexes still rightly cause a search failure (and since they search the whole info node, they are slow), but once completed, they seem to almost do the right thing, I only find one small difference from what I would expect: Say, the first occurrence of `a' in the info node is followed by `utoconf'. Then, right after `info Autoconf', the sequences /a[u]RETURN R C^s au each find the first occurrence of `au', while the sequence C^s a[u] finds the second occurrence of `au'. But that really is very minor, so I don't expect you to work on it. > I changed the prompt too. Much better. > Thanks for the report, Ralf. Anytime. Thanks for the fixes, and keep up the good work! Cheers, Ralf
