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bug#7718: 23.2.91; Info-isearch-search fails isearch
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#7718: 23.2.91; Info-isearch-search fails isearch |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:28:49 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Info-isearch-search does not implement the noerror arg because it just
>> passes it
>> unchanged to Info-search. Do you mean Info-search should implement noerror
>> for
>> some non-interactive uses? What it should do when noerror is non-nil?
>
> That's what I meant. Info-search doesn't implement noerror. I think it
> should be like the default isearch search functions:
> re-/search-forward/backward: Optional argument, if t, means if fail just
> return nil (no error).
But the whole logic of Isearch using Info-search is built on the
assumption that Info-search ignores the noerror arg (that is usually t).
This allow Isearch to fail in the initial Info node
and to continue searching through other nodes without failing.