> 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/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
