bug#11168: All headers but one missing in main *Info* buffer

This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list

and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org. Please check that

the From: line contains a valid email address. After a delay of up

to one day, you should receive an acknowledgement at that address.

Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers

usually do not have translators for other languages.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and

the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe

starting from `emacs -Q':

My dir file for info-mode (the default file that came with Emacs) starts

(ignoring the header material):

* Menu:

* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.

Emacs

* Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor.

* Emacs FAQ: (efaq). Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs.

GNU Emacs Lisp

* Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr). A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp programming.

* Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

[...]

When I execute C-h I in Emacs (started with no init.el file), the *info* buffer pops up OK, but starts like

this:

* Menu:

* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.

Emacs

* Emacs The extensible self-documenting text editor.

* Emacs FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs.

* Emacs Lisp Intro A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp programming.

* Elisp The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

[...]

Apart from the first "Emacs" heading, all subsequent headings do not appear in

the *Info* buffer, even though they're all present in the dir file.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,

please include the output from the following gdb commands:

`bt full' and `xbacktrace'.

For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file

c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/etc/DEBUG.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002)

of 2012-02-26 on MARVIN

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.0.6002

Configured using:

`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include

-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:

value of $LC_ALL: nil

value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

value of $LC_TIME: nil

value of $LANG: ENU

value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

locale-coding-system: cp1252

default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Message

Minor modes in effect:

mml-mode: t

tooltip-mode: t

mouse-wheel-mode: t

tool-bar-mode: t

menu-bar-mode: t

file-name-shadow-mode: t

global-font-lock-mode: t

font-lock-mode: t

blink-cursor-mode: t

auto-composition-mode: t

auto-encryption-mode: t

auto-compression-mode: t

line-number-mode: t

transient-mark-mode: t

abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:

d e SPC s t a r t s : <return> <return> C-x o C-x o

<up> <up> M-f M-f M-f M-f M-f M-f C-a M-f M-f M-f M-f

M-f M-f SPC ( t h e SPC d e f a u l t SPC f i l e SPC

t h a t SPC c a m e SPC w i t h SPC E m a c s ) <down>

SPC ( i g n o r i n g SPC t h e SPC h e a d e r SPC

m a t e r i a l ) : <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>

<down> <return> [ . . . ] <return> <return> T h e n

<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> W h

e SPC n <backspace> <backspace> n SPC I SPC e x e c

u t e SPC C-a <C-end> C-x C-x <right> C-e <backspace>

C-y <C-home> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>

M-w M-x r e p o r t - e m a SPC b u SPC <return>

Recent messages:

Checking 65 files in c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/lisp/obsolete...

Checking 2 files in c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/leim...

Checking for load-path shadows...done

Mark set

Saved text from "* Menu:

* Info: (info). "

Mark set [2 times]

Auto-saving...done

Mark set [4 times]

Load-path shadows:

c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/site-lisp/dvc/lisp/ewoc hides c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/site-lisp/dvc/lisp/contrib/ewoc

c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/site-lisp/org-mode/.dir-locals hides c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals

c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/site-lisp/dvc/lisp/ewoc hides c:/emacs/emacs-24.0.94/lisp/emacs-lisp/ewoc

Features:

(newcomment shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec

rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231

mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045

ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode view info easymenu

preview-latex tex-site auto-loads time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks

lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars

tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar

rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax

facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese

tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak

czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook

jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces

cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env

code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote

make-network-process multi-tty emacs)

From:	Richard Stanton
Subject:	bug#11168: All headers but one missing in main Info buffer
Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:13:37 -0700