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24.1.50; New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11999: 24.1.50; New Info file suffix ".info" breaks `Info-find-node-2'
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:19:29 +0200

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

>> > 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'.

Neither of which makes sense in the context of the bug report, so I had
to take your description literally.

> This is the problem - there is no such file:
>
>   info-file-exists-p("c:/Emacs-24-2012-07-16/info/emacs")

Thus info-file-exists-p correctly returns nil.  What is the problem?

Andreas.

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