bug#6106: 24.0.50; info.el adds 'search-failed to debug-ignored-errors

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tags 6106 patch
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Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> `search-failed' is added to `debug-ignored-errors' in info.el
> to not enter the debugger when a normal search stops with no results.
>
> But this error is raised by `xsignal1 (Qsearch_failed, string)'
> in `re-search-forward' (called from `Info-search'),
> so I see no way to replace it with a call to the new function
> `user-error' (or the same function with any other name).

Use the NOERROR parameter?


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From f0b7b943368e9856dda49c3bdb862c1940266189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:54:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1] Don't add `search-failed' to ignored errors in info.el
 (Bug#6106)

* lisp/info.el: Stop adding `search-failed' to `debug-ignored-errors'.
(Info-select-node, Info-search): Replace (signal 'search-failed ...)
with (user-error "Search failed: "...).
---
 lisp/info.el | 23 ++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index 8dc85f48a4..a06c868fb3 100644
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ Info-select-node
 	  (forward-line 2)
 	(if (looking-at "\^_")
 	    (forward-line 1)
-	  (signal 'search-failed (list "\n\^_"))))
+	  (user-error "Search failed: `\n\^_'")))
       ;; Get nodename spelled as it is in the node.
       (re-search-forward "Node:[ \t]*")
       (setq Info-current-node
@@ -1998,19 +1998,20 @@ Info-search
                   Info-isearch-initial-node
                   bound
                   (and found (> found opoint-min) (< found opoint-max)))
-	(signal 'search-failed (list regexp "end of node")))
+	(user-error "Search failed: `%s' (end of node)" regexp))
 
       ;; If no subfiles, give error now.
       (unless (or found Info-current-subfile)
         (if isearch-mode
-            (signal 'search-failed (list regexp "end of manual"))
+            (user-error "Search failed: `%s' (end of manual)" regexp)
           (let ((search-spaces-regexp Info-search-whitespace-regexp))
-            (if backward
-                (re-search-backward regexp)
-              (re-search-forward regexp)))))
+            (unless (if backward
+                        (re-search-backward regexp nil t)
+                      (re-search-forward regexp nil t))
+              (user-error "Search failed: `%s'" regexp)))))
 
       (if (and bound (not found))
-	  (signal 'search-failed (list regexp)))
+          (user-error "Search failed: `%s'" regexp))
 
       (unless (or found bound)
 	(unwind-protect
@@ -2054,9 +2055,8 @@ Info-search
 		    (setq list nil)))
 	      (if found
 		  (message "")
-		(signal 'search-failed (if isearch-mode
-					   (list regexp "end of manual")
-					 (list regexp)))))
+                (user-error "Search failed: `%s'%s"
+                            regexp (if isearch-mode " (end of manual)" ""))))
 	  (if (not found)
 	      (progn (Info-read-subfile osubfile)
 		     (goto-char opoint)
@@ -5237,9 +5237,6 @@ Info-speedbar-buttons
       (erase-buffer))
   (Info-speedbar-hierarchy-buttons nil 0))
 
-;; FIXME: Really?  Why here?
-(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors 'search-failed)
-
 ;;;;  Desktop support
 
 (defun Info-desktop-buffer-misc-data (_desktop-dirname)
-- 
2.11.1