(Info-goto-index): One register one step in the history.

(Info-index): Don't protect the history around the call to Info-goto-index.

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index c40bd82204d36f1910d79cee5dc20282219260cf..55f9f49edf09f270cbee1bfa0bc33d7fe07224c2 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2001-11-29  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
+
+       * info.el (Info-complete-next-re, Info-complete-cache): New vars.
+       (Info-complete-menu-item): Rewrite.  Add the ability to search
+       several sequential nodes.  Add a simple caching mechanism.
+       (Info-goto-index): New function extracted from Info-index.
+       (Info-index): Use it.  Add completion to the interactive spec.
+       (Info-menu-update): Simplify call to `Info-complete-menu-item'.
+
 2001-11-29  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * COPYING: Removed.
@@ -19,8 +28,7 @@
 
        * play/blackbox.el (blackbox-mode, blackbox): Doc fix.
 
-       * play/cookie1.el (cookie, cookie-insert, shuffle-vector): Doc
-       fixes.
+       * play/cookie1.el (cookie, cookie-insert, shuffle-vector): Doc fixes.
 
        * play/studly.el (studlify-word, studlify-region)
        (studlify-buffer): Fix doc-string.

diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index 1c6242375deab3d5a3f33bc8e4eb95f20fea6a83..2f9d6e0202449a6f2356f100e1b1c736364c4ce9 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -1831,7 +1831,9 @@ parent node."
   (or (re-search-forward "\n\\* \\(.*\\<Index\\>\\)" nil t)
       (error "No index"))
   (goto-char (match-beginning 1))
-  (Info-goto-node (Info-extract-menu-node-name)))
+  ;; Protect Info-history so that the current node (Top) is not added to it.
+  (let ((Info-history nil))
+    (Info-goto-node (Info-extract-menu-node-name))))
 
 (defun Info-index (topic)
   "Look up a string TOPIC in the index for this file.
@@ -1857,16 +1859,14 @@ Give a blank topic name to go to the Index node itself."
                         (regexp-quote topic)))
        node
        (case-fold-search t))
-    ;; Here, and subsequently in this function,
-    ;; we bind Info-history to nil for internal node-switches
-    ;; so that we don't put junk in the history.
-    ;; In the first Info-goto-node call, above, we do update the history
-    ;; because that is what the user's previous node choice into it.
-    (let ((Info-history nil))
-      (Info-goto-index))
+    (Info-goto-index)
     (or (equal topic "")
        (let ((matches nil)
              (exact nil)
+             ;; We bind Info-history to nil for internal node-switches so
+             ;; that we don't put junk in the history.  In the first
+             ;; Info-goto-index call, above, we do update the history
+             ;; because that is what the user's previous node choice into it.
              (Info-history nil)
              found)
          (while