Re: [help-texinfo] Re: Gentoo Linux some `Info' manuals missing index

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:20:20 -0600
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>     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.