GNU bug report logs - #11999
24.1.50; New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 11999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#11999: 24.1.50;
	New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:45:33 -0700

> > The code does exactly the same thing, step by step.  But when
> > `info-insert-file-contents' is called in the 7/16 build it 
> > returns nil instead of t
> 
> info-insert-file-contents doesn't return a boolean (in fact it doesn't
> return any useful value at all).

Look at the two backtraces.  Contrast their first lines.

It should be clear that I meant `info-file-exists-p', not
`info-insert-file-contents'.

This is the problem - there is no such file:

  info-file-exists-p("c:/Emacs-24-2012-07-16/info/emacs")
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