Re: Standalone Info reader cannot read Info files with CR-LF EOLs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 18:38:07 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > There's still a problem of Info files produced by makeinfo 4.x on
> > Windows -- these will not be reliably readable with the new
> > stand-alone Info.  I think we need to have a solution for that as
> > well, at least as a user option, if not automatically.  (One way of
> > doing that automatically would be to detect the 4.x version from the
> > file's preamble.)
> 
> I've committed some changes that will likely work for these files as
> well as the other files. It worked for me on the files I've tried.
> Please have a try.

Thanks, it seems to work.

However, I see an annoying delay when going to a different node.  For
example, in the Emacs Lisp manual, go to the "Index" node, move to the
end of the index, type RET on one of the last entries, then type 'l'
to go back.  Bot going to Index and going back causes a visible delay,
which is about 1.5 sec here (this is a Core-i7 box).

Dies this have something to do with how you remove the CR characters
in the current trunk?

> (While testing these changes I noticed that there doesn't seem to be
> any support in the standalone Info reader for varying lengths of file
> preambles in a split file (some mention of that here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-08/msg00040.html),
> so there could be some more changes coming to do with tag table
> processing. )

Yes, different-size preambles are a PITA.

Thanks.