23.0.60; info.el: Point always moves to last menu item

23.0.60; info.el: Point always moves to last menu item

[Ralf Angeli]

Start Emacs with `emacs -Q' and type `C-h i'.  In my case point ends
up right after "* Mtools".  The same happens if I type `m emacs <RET>'
afterwards.  Then point ends up behind "* MS-DOS".

I am not sure where this comes from because as soon as I try to debug
the lisp code in info.el with edebug, the behavior vanishes and point is
at the top of the buffer where it should be.  So perhaps this is a
redisplay problem.

And evaluating
(progn
  (info)
  (point))
will return a value referring to the (fontified) start of the buffer.
Only afterwards (point) will return the position of the last menu
entry.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-04-20 on photon
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-h i m e m <tab> <return> C-x k <return> ( p r o g 
n <return> <tab> ( i n f o SPC " e m a c s " ) <return> 
<tab> ( p o i n t ) ) C-j q C-h i M-: ( p o i n t ) 
<return> C-x k <return> C-p C-k C-b C-x C-e C-x k <return> 
C-p C-e C-x C-e C-x k <return> C-b C-b C-f <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> C-n C-e C-x C-e M-: ( p o i 
n t ) <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return
>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Composing main Info directory...done
1195 (#o2253, #x4ab)
1195
nil
Composing main Info directory...done
173
11999 (#o27337, #x2edf)