bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC

[David Abrahams]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

This is arguably a feature request, but it seems so glaring that you
might consider it a bug.  If I'm in an xterm and type `info dbus' I get
a nice info session about emacs/dbus integration.  But there doesn't
seem to be any way to visit the same page from within emacs using
info-mode other than `M-: (info "dbus")'.  This seems needlessly
inconvenient.  `C-u M-x info <RET> dbus <RET>' ought to get me to the
same node if there's no info file named "dbus" in the current working
directory.  Also, there should be some syntax to disambiguate:
`C-u M-x info <RET> :dbus <RET>' maybe

Thanks and regards,
Dave

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2008-12-12 on mcbain
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t

Recent input:
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-s l o k C-p 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n <end> M-< M-x i n f o C-g 
C-g C-u 1 M-x i n f o <tab> <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
<tab> <return> SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC <backspace> SPC 
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <Info> <Go to Node...> 
d b u s <return> <backspace> <backspace> <tab> <tab> 
<backspace> <backspace> <tab> C-g C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <Info> <Reference> 
<Getting Started> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
q M-x x <backspace> I n f o <tab> h e l <tab> <return> 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-. SPC SPC SPC q <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x i n f o <tab> 
- b u <tab> <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> I n f 
o <tab> - <backspace> b u <tab> <tab> C-g C-g M-x r 
e p <tab> p o <tab> <backspace> <backspace> o r <tab> 
<return>

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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