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23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed"

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Cc: 10166 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw <at> boostpro.com>
Subject: bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed"
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:38:49 +0200

>>> 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:

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