Re: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?)

[Luc Teirlinck]

Juri Linkov wrote:

   Did you mean "Info-hide-note-references set to nil"?

Yes.

   Isearch ignores text with `invisible' text properties and hidden
   overlays according to `buffer-invisibility-spec'.

   Info-search ignores Info files headers, header lines and Tag Table
   nodes.

None of which apply to `*Note'.

   > It would make people start to doubt the reliability of search in
   > Emacs.  (What _other_ stuff does search in Emacs ignore?)  It would be
   > an outright bug.

What I meant with the parenthetical remark is: If Isearch starts
ignoring things like `*Note', then people could not safely rely on it
anymore, because they would always have to ask themselves: "What
_other_ stuff does search in Emacs ignore?".  There could always be
_some_ reason why Isearch decided that they were actually not
interested in finding what they were trying to find and that showing
them the match would only "inconvenience" them.

Sincerely,

Luc.