On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 01:46:57PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bug report about the 'info' program (GNU texinfo 6.8). > > In a terminal emulator, I ran 'info m4', searched for m4_provide_if, then > attempted to abort this search by pressing some of the characters ESC, Enter, > Ctrl-Q, repeatedly. (I can't remember which character sequence exactly.) > At this point 'info' began to spew several BEL characters per second, which > the terminal emulator turned into popups on the screen. This caused the > terminal emulator to hang, losing the state of all the open tabs.
There's no way for me to reproduce this. I have an m4 Info manual installed but the search for m4_provide_if terminates within a fraction of a second so I cannot try aborting the search by pressing different keys. Without a way to reproduce the error then it's very hard to guess what the problem might be. However, I did find a bug in the current version that the Top node of the m4 manual is not displayed properly. (Tested with Texinfo 7.0.2.) I suspect it may be related to a character encoding conversion from iso-8859-1 to utf-8. I'll investigate soon. This would be very annoying as the two previous bug fix releases both were to fix major bugs with character encoding conversion in the info program.
