> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:20:20 -0600 > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > Cc: [email protected] > > Do you think it would still be considered a bug for emacs if newly > generated info files from cvs work? > > It depends on why the "old" info files don't work. > > The only way I can imagine it not being a bug is the following: "new" > info files have a magic sequence to mark indexes. That is not present > in the old Info files. Perhaps the Emacs maintainers intentionally > decided to only support index searching when that magic sequence is > present. If they made that decision, I think it wasn't a good decision, > but of course it's up to them.
They did no such thing. I have CVS Info manual in the old format, and the index there works for me inside Emacs. > If they didn't make that decision, it simply seems like a bug introduced > since 23.1 was released, based on the evidence at hand. Nope, the above works for me in stock Emacs 23.1.
