From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: teddy@recompile.se, 20704@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20704: info.el bug fix; Interprets Info format wrongly
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:11:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhfqs83v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsi9znetb.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: teddy@recompile.se, 20704@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:02:16 -0400
>
> > But Texinfo 5.x and later does count the CR characters, so the
> > stand-alone Info reader was recently changed to account for that.
> > Which means that Emacs will now have a problem, whereby the byte
> > counts in the tag tables will be inaccurate, and our only hope is the
> > 1000-character tolerance we use to look for the node around the
> > position stated in the tag table will be large enough.
>
> If needed, I think we could make it work reasonably cheaply with
> something along the lines of (100% guaranteed untested code):
Sure, but this needs to be conditioned on the EOL encoding we actually
found when we read the file.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-11 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-31 14:54 bug#20704: info.el bug fix; Interprets Info format wrongly Teddy Hogeborn
2015-06-01 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-01 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-09 11:09 ` Teddy Hogeborn
2015-06-09 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-09 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-10 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-10 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-11 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-11 13:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83lhfqs83v.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=20704@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA \
--cc=teddy@recompile.se \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).