bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> If you are sure about this, here is the simplest way to implement it,
> and the users can disable it easily in help-mode-hook:

[...]

> +  (unless search-default-mode
> +    (setq-local search-default-mode
> +                (lambda (string &optional _lax)
> +                  (thread-last
> +                    (regexp-quote string)
> +                    (replace-regexp-in-string "`" "[`‘]")
> +                    (replace-regexp-in-string "'" "['’]")))))

Thanks; I separated this out into a tiny minor mode, and switched that
on in help-mode and info-mode instead.

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