From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 10166@debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw@boostpro.com>
Subject: bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed"
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:41:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2obvs2qin.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjl4spq4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:41:55 +0200")
on Thu Dec 01 2011, Juri Linkov <juri-AT-jurta.org> wrote:
> tags 10166 notabug
> close 10166
> thanks
>
>>>>>> Almost any search in the attached fileset will fail in this way if you
>>>>>> repeat it enough times. Is the texi ill-formed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it's ill-formed.
>>>>>
>>>>> `Info-search' expects that "^_\nIndirect:" is preceded by a newline in std.info,
>>>>> so it fails trying to call (search-forward "\n\^_\nIndirect:").
>>>>
>>>> Amazing. It's the direct output of makeinfo, so I can't understand why
>>>> the newline would be missing and expected.
>>>
>>> makeinfo prepends some boilerplate to its output in every Info file
>>> that at least begins with a line like:
>>>
>>> This is std.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from std.texi.
>>>
>>> so there is always a newline before ^_Indirect:
>>
>> Well, I am getting some errors from makeinfo, so maybe that's why I
>> don't see that line at the top of the output. The output appears to be
>> otherwise usable (if imperfect).
>
> The file std.info-13 is broken completely and other files lack the
> standard header. Looks like you have translated them with the --force
> option that preserves erroneous makeinfo output. Since there is
> no evidence of a bug in Emacs, I'm closing this report as notabug.
Thanks for taking the time to look at it, and helping us find a
workaround at least.
> You are welcome to post source texi files if you want help in fixing
> makeinfo errors.
This is part of an automated conversion from LaTeX to Texinfo, and
makeinfo is still giving me lots of errors, so I guess I shouldn't be
too surprised to find erroneous output. Maybe if we're still having
trouble as we get those makeinfo errors cleared away, we'll do something
like that.
Thanks again,
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 10:10 bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed" Dave Abrahams
2011-11-30 10:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-30 13:14 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-30 15:38 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-30 15:55 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-12-01 7:41 ` Juri Linkov
2011-12-01 16:41 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
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