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Re: [patch] add an option to info not to be smart searching nodes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [patch] add an option to info not to be smart searching nodes
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:30:55 -0400

> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:28:31 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> Here is an option added to info to avoid being smart when searching for 
> nodes. I don't think that there are any flaw with the search in info, on
> the contrary, it is too efficient, and then it is hard to know if the node
> location information in info files is bogus... makeinfo in C is pretty
> buggy, for example, but it cannot be seen since info is so forgiving.

For the record, the ``smart'' search is there because the Info file
can be edited.  Emacs, for one, allows that.

That is not to say that I'm against this option, certainly not as a
debugging aid.




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