RE: `i' in Info: get combo index tailored to input

[Drew Adams]

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> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:17 PM
> To: 'Juri Linkov'
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> Subject: RE: `i' in Info: get combo index tailored to input
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> > > How about binding it to `C-u i', as a variant of the normal 
> > > index search? Assuming it gets added, that is... Thx.
> > 
> > In http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/79561 you
> > suggested to bind it to `I'.  I like your initial
> > suggestion for the same reasons you described:
> > 
> >   1. It would be useful to have an Info command, say bound to 
> >   `I', that would do for index lookup what `L' (Info-history)
> >   does for chronological navigation. You would type a regexp,
> >   and it would show you a buffer similar to the `Recently
> >   Visited Nodes' buffer of `L'.
> 
> Yes, fine by me.

On the other hand, it might be good to mention `I' on the doc string of `i', and
`L' on the doc string of `l' and `r'. Otherwise, users are less likely to
discover these closely related commands. (That's an advantage that C-u has,
otherwise: users can find out about it when they do C-h k i.)