Re: abortion when doing i x twice

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:27:58PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> It has something to do with my .infokey file.
> When I move it out of the way, info does not abort.
> 
> #var
> mouse=Off
> 
> link-style=blue,bold
> active-link-style=yellow
> match-style=red,bold
> 
> #info
> #\kd     down-line
> #\ku     up-line
> 
> \kl     prev-node
> \kr     next-node
> #\kl    move-to-prev-xref
> #\kr    move-to-next-xref
> ,       prev-node
> .       next-node
> 
> r       search-backward
> 
> n       search-next
> N       search-previous
> #b      search-previous
> #B      search-next
> ^n      search-next
> ^b      search-previous

You are right. The message locale is irrelevant here. The problem is 
that the string "M-x next-index-match" is being substituted in place
of "\[next-index-match]", (as "," is not available, being bound to
something else), and it is one byte too long.