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#44929
28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference
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Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:23:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 28.0.50
Done: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
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#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:44:19 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:21:50 +0100
>>
>> 0. emacs -Q
>> 1. C-h r (if emacs is installed, otherwise `C-u h i /path/to/emacs.info
>> RET')
>> 2. Repeat `C-n' until the cursor is on the '*' before the first menu
>> item 'Distrib'.
>> 3. Type TAB
>> => The cursor jumps over 'Distrib' and goes to the second menu item
>> 'Intro'.
>>
>> The same thing happens if the cursor is on the space between '*' and
>> 'Distrib' and you then press TAB. In both cases, I expected the cursor
>> to go to the immediately following link instead of skipping it.
>
> AFAIU, your expectation is wrong: TAB runs the command
> Info-next-reference, where the "next" part means "not the current
> one". For the "current" reference, press RET.
I didn't know that RET works anywhere on the line (or lines) of the menu
item, not just on the link, and it never occurred to me to try. Thanks
for enlightening me. Closing.
Steve Berman
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0. emacs -Q
1. C-h r (if emacs is installed, otherwise `C-u h i /path/to/emacs.info
RET')
2. Repeat `C-n' until the cursor is on the '*' before the first menu
item 'Distrib'.
3. Type TAB
=> The cursor jumps over 'Distrib' and goes to the second menu item
'Intro'.
The same thing happens if the cursor is on the space between '*' and
'Distrib' and you then press TAB. In both cases, I expected the cursor
to go to the immediately following link instead of skipping it. This
behavior annoys me every time I run into it, but I haven't debugged it
till now. The attached patch fixes it. (The code responsible for the
current behavior in Info-next-reference has not changed since the
command was added to Emacs, but I hope you'll nevertheless agree it's a
bug.)
In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 42, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.17, cairo version 1.17.3)
of 2020-11-21 built on strobe-jhalfs
Repository revision: 0a8cd0116204354e95fbb4ebde64c58123502aa2
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
System Description: Linux From Scratch SVN-20200401
Configured using:
'configure --with-xwidgets 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3'
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib/pkgconfig'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD PDUMPER LCMS2
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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