> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:44:08 +0300 > From: Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > Karl Berry <[email protected]> ha escrit: > > > It's not a feature, it's a bug. > > Actually, I'm not quite sure it is. The capitalization is intended to > highlight the part of string that is matched. The source states it > plainly in a comment on line 457: > > /* If we had a partial match, indicate to the user which part of the > string matched. */ > > Arguably, there are better ways to highlight the text than upcasing it > (by using the terminal capabilities, for instance), but that's the way > the things stood so far, so perhaps we should restore it. > > If, on the other hand, we agree that there's no need in this, I > can just remove that code which will both remove the cause of the > coredump and simplify the code greatly. > > Opinions?
I think this _is_ a feature. Seeing what substring matched is important to figure out at a single glance whether the hit is relevant or just a random match, in which case one should type ',' immediately without even looking at the presented node. The stand-alone Info reader worked like that since about forever (the earliest revision in svn, form 2002, already has it). FWIW, the Emacs Info reader will have a similar feature soon (a patch was just posted to the developers' list). So I will be sad if this is removed.
