GNU bug report logs - #10784
23.1; info doesn't follow link in Bison TOC

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@HIDDEN>
Subject: Re: bug#10784: 23.1; info doesn't follow link in Bison TOC
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> From: Juri Linkov <juri@HIDDEN>
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:15:49 +0200
> Cc: 10784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > | [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$ zgrep 'Secure\?' /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz
> > | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> > | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> > | File: bison.info,  Node: Multiple start-symbols,  Next: Secure? Conform?,  Prev: Implementing Gotos/Loops,  Up: FAQ
> > | File: bison.info,  Node: Secure? Conform?,  Next: I can't build Bison,  Prev: Multiple start-symbols,  Up: FAQ
> > | 11.6 Secure?  Conform?
> > | File: bison.info,  Node: I can't build Bison,  Next: Where can I find help?,  Prev: Secure? Conform?,  Up: FAQ
> > | Node: Secure? Conform?364602
> > | [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$
> >
> > Note the one vs. two spaces between "Secure?" and "Con-
> > form?".  The link works with info (GNU texinfo) 4.13.  The
> > bug is also present in a Emacs snapshot from early February.
> 
> Does this mean that info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 treats a sequence of spaces
> in the names as one space character?

The stand-alone Info reader always, since day one, canonicalized any
whitespace in node names.

> If yes, should info.el do the same

Yes, it definitely should.  And it already does, just not
consistently.  E.g., if, instead of typing RET on that menu line, you
type "m RET", you get to the right node without any error messages.

> with a patch like this:
> 
> === modified file 'lisp/info.el'
> --- lisp/info.el	2012-02-12 20:24:02 +0000
> +++ lisp/info.el	2012-02-12 21:11:33 +0000
> @@ -1025,7 +1025,9 @@ (defun Info-find-node-2 (filename nodena
>  	  (let ((guesspos (point-min))
>  		(regexp (concat "\\(Node:\\|Ref:\\) *\\("
>  				(if (stringp nodename)
> -				    (regexp-quote nodename)
> +				    (mapconcat 'regexp-quote
> +					       (split-string nodename " +" t)
> +					       " +")
>  				  "")
>  				"\\) *[,\t\n\177]")))

I'm not sure this is TRT.  First, we should convert _any_ whitespace,
not just a sequence of SPC characters, to a single SPC.  Second, I
think it would be better to have a single function for this job and
call it from all the places that need to produce a canonical node
name.  I see at least one other place (`Info-extract-menu-node-name')
where we need to do the same, and possibly one more in
`Info-fontify-node'.  If we do this in each place individually, we
will have inconsistent bugs, whereas we want _consistent_ bugs ;-)

Finally, I think the right place to do this is in Info-find-node, not
Info-find-node-2.
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Subject: Re: bug#10784: 23.1; info doesn't follow link in Bison TOC
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> | [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$ zgrep 'Secure\?' /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz
> | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> | File: bison.info,  Node: Multiple start-symbols,  Next: Secure? Conform?,  Prev: Implementing Gotos/Loops,  Up: FAQ
> | File: bison.info,  Node: Secure? Conform?,  Next: I can't build Bison,  Prev: Multiple start-symbols,  Up: FAQ
> | 11.6 Secure?  Conform?
> | File: bison.info,  Node: I can't build Bison,  Next: Where can I find help?,  Prev: Secure? Conform?,  Up: FAQ
> | Node: Secure? Conform?364602
> | [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$
>
> Note the one vs. two spaces between "Secure?" and "Con-
> form?".  The link works with info (GNU texinfo) 4.13.  The
> bug is also present in a Emacs snapshot from early February.

Does this mean that info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 treats a sequence of spaces
in the names as one space character?  If yes, should info.el do the same
with a patch like this:

=== modified file 'lisp/info.el'
--- lisp/info.el	2012-02-12 20:24:02 +0000
+++ lisp/info.el	2012-02-12 21:11:33 +0000
@@ -1025,7 +1025,9 @@ (defun Info-find-node-2 (filename nodena
 	  (let ((guesspos (point-min))
 		(regexp (concat "\\(Node:\\|Ref:\\) *\\("
 				(if (stringp nodename)
-				    (regexp-quote nodename)
+				    (mapconcat 'regexp-quote
+					       (split-string nodename " +" t)
+					       " +")
 				  "")
 				"\\) *[,\t\n\177]")))
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Subject: 23.1; info doesn't follow link in Bison TOC
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

- (info "(bison)")   ;; version 2.4.1
- search for TOC item "Secure?  Conform?"
- press RET
- => "No such node or anchor: Secure?  Conform?"

(Probably) relevant bits from the info file:

| [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$ zgrep 'Secure\?' /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz
| * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
| * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
| File: bison.info,  Node: Multiple start-symbols,  Next: Secure? Conform?,  Prev: Implementing Gotos/Loops,  Up: FAQ
| File: bison.info,  Node: Secure? Conform?,  Next: I can't build Bison,  Prev: Multiple start-symbols,  Up: FAQ
| 11.6 Secure?  Conform?
| File: bison.info,  Node: I can't build Bison,  Next: Where can I find help?,  Prev: Secure? Conform?,  Up: FAQ
| Node: Secure? Conform?364602
| [tim@passepartout ~/src/emacs]$

Note the one vs. two spaces between "Secure?" and "Con-
form?".  The link works with info (GNU texinfo) 4.13.  The
bug is also present in a Emacs snapshot from early February.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.6)
 of 2010-04-01 on x86-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603901
configured using `configure  '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i586-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables''

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: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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