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Re: isearch-forward and Info-search


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: isearch-forward and Info-search
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:59:00 +0900

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:32:35 +1300, Nick Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:
> If I look for something in an Info manual, I use Info-search (s) and if I
> looked for something on a particular page, I would use isearch-forward
> (C-s). However, now isearch-forward now also searches the subsequent manual
> pages and takes me away from the page I'm interested in.

I think it would be a lot less annoying if it at least changed the
prompt to say what it was doing, in the manner of a wrapped isearch
("I-search in node ...: " ?).

Maybe it could even act more like wrapped i-search, and fail once,
before proceeding to the next info page if you hit C-s again.

-Miles
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