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


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: search in Info should not find "File", "Node" etc. in header
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:23:23 -0400
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:35:24PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
>   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.

Search is a lower-level command than index, and is useful for finding things
that aren't indexed.  However like all searching commands, if you use very
general search strings, you're going to get a lot of false hits.  "File" is a
very general term...

-Miles
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