bug#44929: closed (28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:21:50 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

0. emacs -Q
1. C-h r (if emacs is installed, otherwise `C-u h i /path/to/emacs.info
   RET')
2. Repeat `C-n' until the cursor is on the '*' before the first menu
   item 'Distrib'.
3. Type TAB
=> The cursor jumps over 'Distrib' and goes to the second menu item
   'Intro'.

The same thing happens if the cursor is on the space between '*' and
'Distrib' and you then press TAB.  In both cases, I expected the cursor
to go to the immediately following link instead of skipping it.  This
behavior annoys me every time I run into it, but I haven't debugged it
till now.  The attached patch fixes it.  (The code responsible for the
current behavior in Info-next-reference has not changed since the
command was added to Emacs, but I hope you'll nevertheless agree it's a
bug.)

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 42, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.17, 
cairo version 1.17.3)
 of 2020-11-21 built on strobe-jhalfs
Repository revision: 0a8cd0116204354e95fbb4ebde64c58123502aa2
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
System Description: Linux From Scratch SVN-20200401

Configured using:
 'configure --with-xwidgets 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3'
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib/pkgconfig'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD PDUMPER LCMS2

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

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> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:44:19 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
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> >> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> >> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:21:50 +0100
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> >> 0. emacs -Q
> >> 1. C-h r (if emacs is installed, otherwise `C-u h i /path/to/emacs.info
> >>    RET')
> >> 2. Repeat `C-n' until the cursor is on the '*' before the first menu
> >>    item 'Distrib'.
> >> 3. Type TAB
> >> => The cursor jumps over 'Distrib' and goes to the second menu item
> >>    'Intro'.
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> >> The same thing happens if the cursor is on the space between '*' and
> >> 'Distrib' and you then press TAB.  In both cases, I expected the cursor
> >> to go to the immediately following link instead of skipping it.
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> > AFAIU, your expectation is wrong: TAB runs the command
> > Info-next-reference, where the "next" part means "not the current
> > one".  For the "current" reference, press RET.
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> I didn't know that RET works anywhere on the line (or lines) of the menu
> item, not just on the link, and it never occurred to me to try.  Thanks
> for enlightening me.  Closing.
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> Steve Berman
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