Re: Info reader - issues finding first index entry

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:07:08PM +0100, Charles Reilly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using info I have had some issues with finding the first entry in the index.
> For example, try running "info gzip".  The first entry in the concept index
> for gzip is "bugs".  Some example searches:
> 
>     ibugs   - Succeeds
>     ibu     - No entries containing 'bu'.
>     Ibugs   - No entries containing 'bugs'.
>     Ibu     - No entries containing 'bu'.
> 
> It seems that the index-search only finds the first entry if it is an exact
> match.  The virtual-index never finds the first entry.
> 
> Four similar tests for the second index entry, "concatenated files", all
> succeed.
> 
> I'm using info version 6.7.  A similar bug was reported previously:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2010-07/msg00015.html
> 

A bug like this was fixed in March 2022.  This was reported here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-02/msg00105.html

and fixed on 2022-03-09.  It was a different issue that was reported in 2010.