GNU bug report logs - #1116
Emacs hangs when executing Info-final-node

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Message #25 received at 1116 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 1116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "'Sung-Taek Lim'" <totohero <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#1116: Emacs hangs when executing Info-final-node
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:03:05 +0200

> I don't mean to butt in here, but I suspect this is due to bug #1117 (probably =
> #876). Are there extra ^M at the line ends of the Index page (which is the last
> node)?

Have you looked at the original report?  It says

   I' running GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-09-07 on SOFT-MJASON

> I have bug #1117 in my latest CVS version, and debugging Info-final-node shows
> exactly that. The code gets here, and it just loops because "Top^M" is not
> string-equal to "Top".
[...]
> It was looking at Martin's patch that made me think of this - the code is
> similar to my code that made me discover bug #1117 - same comparison of "Top^M"
> with "Top", but in my case (isearch) an error was raised instead of an infinite
> loop.

You can't test this with current CVS on Windows - the ^Ms get in your
way thus hiding the original bug.

martin

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