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RE: search in Info should not find "File", "Node" etc. in header


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: search in Info should not find "File", "Node" etc. in header
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:35:24 -0700

  -----Original Message-----From: Eli Zaretskii
  > Search for "file" in Info. it finds each occurrence of "File" at the
  > top of each node.

  This is how Info behaved from day one.  The stand-alone Info reader
  also does that.  So if we change this, a similar change should be done
  in the Texinfo package.

OK, then a similar change should be done to the others as well.

  > This makes it impossible to search for "file" (or "node" or...),
  > which is an important keyword to be able to search for.

  You should use the much more powerful and useful Index-search (bound
  to `i'), not text search.

If that's the answer, then we should remove `Info-search' (bound to `s')
altogether. If there is a raison d'etre for `Info-search', then it should
work on terms like "file" too.

IOW, I don't buy either argument advanced for not fixing `Info-search'.





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