bug#10166: 23.3; [Info-search] "Search Failed"

[Juri Linkov]

>>> Almost any search in the attached fileset will fail in this way if you
>>> repeat it enough times.  Is the texi ill-formed?
>>
>> Yes, it's ill-formed.
>>
>> `Info-search' expects that "^_\nIndirect:" is preceded by a newline in 
>> std.info,
>> so it fails trying to call (search-forward "\n\^_\nIndirect:").
>
> Amazing.  It's the direct output of makeinfo, so I can't understand why
> the newline would be missing and expected.

makeinfo prepends some boilerplate to its output in every Info file
that at least begins with a line like:

  This is std.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from std.texi.

so there is always a newline before ^_Indirect: