GNU bug report logs - #24510
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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Message #116 received at 24510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 24510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks
 like `
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:17:27 +0300
> Nice.  But we should also have this in *Help* (and possibly other
> buffers where we do the `' -> ‘’ dance, but I can't think of any others
> at the moment), so would it possible to have this like a little minor
> mode?  Or would that be difficult?  (I've barely looked at the char-fold
> machinery, so I have no idea.)

I have a patch that shows the contents of help buffers in Info mode.
Then searching for ‘’ in help text will be handled by Info-isearch-search.




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