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bug#23857: Emacs 25.0.94: Info-read-node-name fails outside of Info buff
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#23857: Emacs 25.0.94: Info-read-node-name fails outside of Info buffers; patch to fix included |
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Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:22:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:
> Info-read-node-name is useful even when the current buffer is not an
> Info buffer because it can be used to specify a file from which to read
> Info node name completions, e.g. if you want to produce a link within an
> Emacs Lisp file to a specific Info node.
(Info-read-node-name "(File)Node: ")
=> "Top This is the top of the INFO tree"
It seems like a very mode-specific function to me...
[...]
> ! (condition-case nil
> ! (Info-build-node-completions-1)
> ! (error nil)))))
And just catching all errors isn't a good way to solve these things,
because it may be covering up other errors we want to catch.
Given both these things, I don't think this is a good idea, and I'm
closing this bug report.
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