Re: AW: AW: problems with display of info files in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rubey Martin <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:10:39 +0000
> 
> > Yes: upgrade both your Texinfo and your Emacs to newer versions.  You
> > happen to use the only known combination of these two packages that
> > has these problems.  The "jumps to bad places", for example, is due to
> > a subtle bug in Texinfo 5.2  that Emacs 24.4 is unable to cope with.
> 
> I just switched to a computer with newer makeinfo and newer emacs, see below, 
> but *precisely* the same problems (both).

The problem with highlighting any number in parentheses in nodes that
include footnotes exists in any version of Emacs.  However, clicking
on a number that doesn't correspond to a footnote number in that node
will say that there's no valid reference there, so it's not really a
catastrophe.

The problem with going to cross-references specified by anchors is
solved only in the latest Emacs 25.1, so I'm guessing your unnamed
newer Emacs is older than that.

> I attach a file from the same project which exhibits both problems.  If you 
> view the fourth menu node:
> 
>     The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
> 
> (in emacs!), right at the beginning you will see
> 
> =========================================
> AUTHORS:
> 
>    - Thierry Monteil (2012-02-10 – 2013-06-21): initial version.
> 
>    - Vincent Delecroix (2014): modifies continued fractions because of
>      trac ticket #14567(1)
> 
>    - Moritz Firsching (2016): modifies handling of dead sequence, see
>      trac ticket #17330(2)
> =========================================
> 
> and both (2014) and (2016) are interpreted by emacs-info as links.

They are interpreted as links only as far as the face in which they
are displayed.  Clicking on these "links" will tell you that they are
not real links.

> Going back to top, and then visiting the node
> 
>     FindStat - the Combinatorial Statistic Finder
>  
> you should see in line 29 the link
> 
>     To access the database, use *note findstat: 7a.:
> 
> but clicking on it does not send me to the line beginning with
> 
>     Class sage.databases.findstat.FindStat

It does for me, in Emacs 25.1.