Re: Integration of Info manuals in programming modes

[Visuwesh]

[வியாழன் டிசம்பர் 05, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
>> Cc: arne_bab@web.de,  rms@gnu.org,  spwhitton@spwhitton.name,
>>   jb@jeremybryant.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:19:13 +0530
>> 
>> [வியாழன் டிசம்பர் 05, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> >> but I do not understand how info-lookup works really.  C-h S RET on
>> >> 'read' jumps to the FGET page which is not we want.
>> >
>> > Look at the index node you mentioned: what other menu item that
>> > matches "read" there is more appropriate?  And what did you expect to
>> > see instead?
>> 
>> I would rather see a complain about no matches.  If someone could figure
>> out how to reject non-exact matches, that would be do the job.
>
> That's a double-edge sword: rejecting non-exact matches could miss
> valid hits.

I agree, dismissing a invalid match is not too much trouble.

> However, maybe the regexp should only match keywords in upper-case,
> and ignore-case should not be used?

But Fortran is a case-insensitive language and recent style-guides ask
you to use lower case lettering for everything.  Other code that I've
seen use upper case lettering for keywords, not for functions and
subroutines so we cannot opt for this route unfortunately.