GNU bug report logs - #28074
25.2; `Info-toc' should not duplicate nodes by processing `The Detailed Node Listing'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 02:51:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 28074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 28074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28074: 25.2; `Info-toc' should not duplicate nodes by
 processing `The Detailed Node Listing'
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:33:59 +0100

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

> Go to the Elisp manual or the Emacs manual.  Each of these has a menu of
> nodes followed by a section called "The Detailed Node Listing".
>
> M-x Info-toc
>
> The result is not just a hierarchical TOC of the manual's nodes.  The
> result duplicates both the menu (hierarchical) structure AND the flat,
> "Detailed Node List".  The "Detailed Node List" lists each node multiple
> times, once at the top level and once under each of its ancestor nodes.

This was apparently due to Info now using EMDASH instead of a hyphen in
the Detailed Node Listing regexp.  This is now fixed in Emacs 28.

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