Re: info: search fails to find string occurrence

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:41:40 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> In a menu, all node names are terminated by a colon.

Not true.  Counterexamples (from my DIR file):

  * basename: (coreutils)basename invocation.     Strip directory and suffix.
  * Emacs: (emacs).       The extensible self-documenting text editor.

and from the Emacs manual's top-level menu:

  TeX Mode

  * Editing: TeX Editing.   Special commands for editing in TeX mode.
  * LaTeX: LaTeX Editing.   Additional commands for LaTeX input files.
  * Printing: TeX Print.    Commands for printing part of a file with TeX.
  * Misc: TeX Misc.         Customization of TeX mode, and related features.

> The only places where
> a node name is followed by a period and a space or closing parenthesis are
> the expansion of @xref and @pref references inline in text. But in this
> situation, the second argument to skip_node_characters will be SKIP_NEWLINES,
> i.e. newlines_okay=true. So, if newlines_okay is false, there is no need
> to test for a period - just wait for the colon. This patch does it, and
> it fixes the problem!

Did you try it on the examples such as above?