Re: Info enhancements

[Juri Linkov]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:46:00 +0200
>> 
>> inserting the text "See" into Info buffers breaks
>> some Info functions (e.g. `Info-last', `Info-search').
>
> You don't need to actually insert "see" into the buffer, you could
> define an overlay instead.

Seems overlays don't interact well with the `invisible' property.
For instance, move point to the beginning of the reference
with Info-hide-note-references=t and evaluate this code:
M-: (overlay-put (make-overlay (point) (point)) 'before-string "See ")
and the reference loses its fontification.

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