GNU bug report logs - #1848
23.0.60; isearch-forward fails to find colon characters in Info buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org, bgoodr <at> gmail.com,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1848: 23.0.60;	isearch-forward fails to find colon characters in Info buffers
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:42:35 -0500

>> >> That's correct, in Emacs 23 C-s doesn't find invisible characters
>> >> in Info.  This is an intentional change, not a bug.  Please see
>> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/95142
>> 
>> > I found it a bit confusing that setting search-invisible to t makes no
>> > difference to the behaviour here. Should Info-search-success-function
>> > respect search-invisible?
>> 
>> I'd say yes.  Does anyone object?

> I don't object, but wouldn't it be confusing to have it "find" the
> colon, without the colon being visible?  Perhaps we should make it
> temporarily visible?

Oh, yes, definitely.  If we can't temporarily show the invisible text,
then we shouldn't obey (eq search-invisible 'open), but we should still
obey (eq search-invisible t).


        Stefan
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