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23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 08:44:29 -0700

emacs -Q
 
C-h i, choose Elisp manual.
g Customization Types
m d TAB RET, to go to node Defining New Types
SPC SPC to get to node Loading
l
 
This takes you back to node Customization, not to the last visited
node, which is Defining New Types, or even to the node visited just
before that, which is Customization Types. Node Customization is the
grandparent of the last visited node, and it was never even visited.
 
This behavior contradicts what a user expects, which is a strict
chronological navigation, unrelated to the hierarchical manual
organization.
 
It also contradicts what the doc of `l' says it is supposed to do: "Go
back in the history to the last node visited." 
 
Likewise, the Info tutorial says this about `l':
 
"`l' command (`l' for "last") will do that, one node-step at a time.
As you move from node to node, Info records the nodes where you have
been in a special history list.  The `l' command revisits nodes in the
history list; each successive `l' command moves one step back through
the history."
 
`l' is not in fact moving one step through the history list. In fact,
it is even moving to nodes that are not on the history list (never
visited).
 
The doc is not wrong about what `l' should do; it is the actual
behavior that is wrong. `l' should act like the `Back' button of a Web
browser; it should totally ignore book structure and stick to the
navigation history.
 
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-05-04 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 

Message #10 received at 208 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:57:44 -0400

> C-h i, choose Elisp manual.
> g Customization Types
> m d TAB RET, to go to node Defining New Types
> SPC SPC to get to node Loading
> l
> 
> This takes you back to node Customization, not to the last visited
> node, which is Defining New Types, or even to the node visited just
> before that, which is Customization Types. Node Customization is the
> grandparent of the last visited node, and it was never even visited.
 
I can't reproduce this.  Do you still see this?

Message #15 received at 208 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: <208 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: 23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:21:12 -0700

> From: Chong Yidong Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:58 PM
> > C-h i, choose Elisp manual.
> > g Customization Types
> > m d TAB RET, to go to node Defining New Types
> > SPC SPC to get to node Loading
> > l
> > 
> > This takes you back to node Customization, not to the last visited
> > node, which is Defining New Types, or even to the node visited just
> > before that, which is Customization Types. Node Customization is the
> > grandparent of the last visited node, and it was never even visited.
>  
> I can't reproduce this.  Do you still see this?

No, it seems to be fixed now. Thanks.

FYI - I check with some previous builds I have, and it looks like this was fixed
between a build on 2008-05-04 and a build on 2008-05-29.

Message #18 received at 208-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 208-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: Re: bug#208: 23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:52:55 +0300

>> > C-h i, choose Elisp manual.
>> > g Customization Types
>> > m d TAB RET, to go to node Defining New Types
>> > SPC SPC to get to node Loading
>> > l
>> >
>> > This takes you back to node Customization, not to the last visited
>> > node, which is Defining New Types, or even to the node visited just
>> > before that, which is Customization Types. Node Customization is the
>> > grandparent of the last visited node, and it was never even visited.
>>
>> I can't reproduce this.  Do you still see this?
>
> No, it seems to be fixed now. Thanks.
>
> FYI - I check with some previous builds I have, and it looks like this was fixed
> between a build on 2008-05-04 and a build on 2008-05-29.

This was fixed with http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96895/focus=96954

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Message #19 received at 208-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: <208-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
        "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: RE: bug#208: 23.0.60; `l' in Info skips last visited node
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:59:20 -0700

> >> I can't reproduce this.  Do you still see this?
> >
> > No, it seems to be fixed now. Thanks.
> >
> > FYI - I check with some previous builds I have, and it 
> > looks like this was fixed
> > between a build on 2008-05-04 and a build on 2008-05-29.
> 
> This was fixed with 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/96895/focus=96954

Thanks, Juri.

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