Re: Loss of search facility in info in newer releases of Texinfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:50:08 -0500
> From: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com>
> CC: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
>  From my viewpoint, it seems that Alan wants some kind of equivalence 
> table, such that ASCII backtick and single quote will match the Unicode 
> curly quotes when typed into an I-search.  This might be a generally 
> useful feature, particularly if it is implemented as a variable that can 
> be made mode-local or buffer-local, with a global default customizable 
> by the user, as it would enable searching for characters not actually on 
> the user's keyboard.

Emacs already has such a feature, see "Lax Search" in the Emacs
manual.  I suggested to Alan in private email to try using that for
his needs (it works for me, FWIW).