Subject: 27.2; admin.el:make-manuals infloops on HTML manuals

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:56:04 +0200

The script admin/make-manuals never finishes, when invoked on HTML
manuals produced by Texinfo 6.7 (and possibly some older versions).

This happens because 'make-manuals' from admin.el infloops in the
function 'manual-html-fix-index-2' when processing the index.html for
the Emacs user manual.  The loop is in this fragment:

	(while (not done)
	  (cond ((re-search-forward "<tr><td.*&bull; \\(<a.*</a>\\)\
:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td[^>]*>\\(.*\\)" (line-end-position) t)
		 (replace-match (format "<tr><td%s>\\1</td>\n<td>\\2"
					(if table-workaround
					    " bgcolor=\"white\"" "")))
		 (search-forward "</td></tr>")
		 (forward-line 1))
		((looking-at "<tr><th.*<pre class=\"menu-comment\">\n")
		 (replace-match "<tr><th colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" \
style=\"text-align:left\">")
		 (search-forward "</pre></th></tr>")
		 (replace-match "</th></tr>\n"))
		;; Not all manuals have the detailed menu.
		;; If it is there, split it into a separate table.
		((re-search-forward "<tr>.*The Detailed Node Listing *"
				    (line-end-position) t)
		 (setq opoint (match-beginning 0))
		 (while (and (looking-at " *&mdash;")
			     (zerop (forward-line 1))))
		 (delete-region opoint (point))
		 (insert "</table>\n\n\
<h2>Detailed Node Listing</h2>\n\n<p>")
		 ;; FIXME Fragile!
		 ;; The Emacs and Elisp manual have some text at the
		 ;; start of the detailed menu that is not part of the menu.
		 ;; Other manuals do not.
		 (if (re-search-forward "in one step:" (line-end-position 3) t)
		     (forward-line 1))
		 (insert "</p>\n")
		 (search-forward "</pre></th></tr>")
		 (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
		 (forward-line -1)
		 (or (looking-at "^$") (error "Parse error 1"))
		 (forward-line -1)
		 (if (looking-at "^$") (error "Parse error 2"))
		 (forward-line -1)
		 (or (looking-at "^$") (error "Parse error 3"))
		 (forward-line 1)
		 (insert "<table class=\"menu\" style=\"float:left\" width=\"100%\">\n\
<tr><th colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\">\n")
		 (forward-line 1)
		 (insert "</th></tr>")
		 (forward-line 1))
		((looking-at ".*</table")
		 (forward-line 1)
		 (setq done t)))))

It loops because none of the branches of 'cond' inside the 'while'
loop matches the text, and so point doesn't move.

This currently precludes updating the HTML docs on the GNU Web site,
unless the HTML files were produced by Texinfo 5 or older.

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