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Re: Search multiple Info-buffers at once with Info-occur function


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Search multiple Info-buffers at once with Info-occur function
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 15:15:55 +0300

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 14:07:08 +0200
> 
> FWIW, I would find it useful if `Info-index` could be called from any
> buffer, say to search the Elisp manual if I'm on a emacs-lisp-mode
> buffer.

In this use case, how will Info-index know which manual to search?

> In fact, it might be handy to associate a list of Info nodes,
> rather than a single node, to a buffer

Sorry, I don't understand: what buffer would you like to associate
with which Info nodes?

> `Info-index` won't find a needle in a haysack, but one advantage over
> `info-apropos` is the possibility to do incremental filtering out of the
> box, with any of the incremental completion frameworks.

Are you sure the facilities in info-look.el aren't a better starting
point (or maybe even a solution) for the problems you have in mind?



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