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25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:05:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in versions 25.1, 24.5

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "24510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <24510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:00:29 +0000

> My thorough research shows that 99.7% of Emacs users don't see a ‘
> outside of *Help* and *info*, so doing something special there seems
> useful.

Possibly, yes.  Optionally (maybe opt-out, not opt-in).

> > But still if the user want this only in Info, it's 
> > very easy to type C-s M-s ' `list.
> 
> That does more than just fold `' with ‘’, though.

That too is a good point.  Maybe a command that folds
only some (definable) set of confusables?
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