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Bug#245673: marked as done (info: return the first non-exact match instead of the last)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #245673,
regarding info: return the first non-exact match instead of the last
to be marked as done.

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Package: info
Version: 4.6-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

This bug is spawned from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213618 .

When looking for an info page to display when I type "info foo", the
stand-alone info reader looks for an exact match (returning the first
hit), then a case-insensitive match (returning the first hit), then a
case-insensitive prefix match (returning the last hit).  (This is in
info_follow_menus.)

The part about returning the last hit in the prefix match is somewhat
odd.  It is not really wrong, but it would be more consistent and
slightly more intuitive to return the first hit.  The appended patch
makes this change.

I sent this patch to bfox@gnu.org, but received no reply.

Andrew

--- session.c.orig	2003-10-01 19:52:22.000000000 -0400
+++ session.c	2003-10-01 19:52:24.000000000 -0400
@@ -2547,7 +2547,7 @@
               if (strcasecmp (entry->label, arg) == 0)
                 break;
               else
-                if (strncasecmp (entry->label, arg, strlen (arg)) == 0)
+                if (! best_guess && strncasecmp (entry->label, arg, strlen (arg)) == 0)
                   best_guess = i;
             }


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-s03nexplan
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages info depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information

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Version: 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1

Am 24.04.2004 um 18:00 teilte Andrew Pimlott mit:

> This bug is spawned from
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213618 .
> 
> When looking for an info page to display when I type "info foo", the
> stand-alone info reader looks for an exact match (returning the first
> hit), then a case-insensitive match (returning the first hit), then a
> case-insensitive prefix match (returning the last hit).  (This is in
> info_follow_menus.)
> 
No reaction from submitter for 1/2 a year and issue probably solved.
Closing.

Hilmar
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