Re: Some links to external manuals not followable in Info output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 09:56:40PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> If a cross-reference appears like
> 
> @xref{,,, texi2any_api, GNU Texinfo @command{texi2any} Output Customization}.
> 
> with no first argument, then this is output in Info like
> 
> *Note (texi2any_api)::.
> 
> - with no node argument following the manual.  The Info browser (at least
> recent versions of it; I checked 6.8 and 7.1) cannot follow such links
> (I didn't check with Emacs).  However, texi2any does not warn about
> such constructs.

Here is a patch for the Info reader.  It passes the tests and in a test
with a minimum info file, followed a cross-reference as above.  But I
may have overlooked interactions with other parts of the code.

-- 
Pat

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