Re: info-lookup-alist mangled, breaks C-h S

[T.V Raman]

Will file the bug report from a  bare-boned emacs later today.

I suspect info-look could do with a major overhaul; some of the list
surgery that modules like tramp-integration.el do to that list look
scarily unmaintainable
Tassilo Horn writes:
 > "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
 > 
 > > tried that already -- leads down various twisty ratholes since too many
 > > things in emacs core itself touch that variable, and some of that code
 > > was beyond my abilities, eg see the code in tramp-integration.el
 > >
 > > -- that one appears to be an earlier offendor with respect to adding an
 > > invalid entry.
 > 
 > FWIW, the problematic entry doesn't seem to come from some external
 > package, at least I can reproduce the error using
 > 
 >   1. emacs -Q
 >   2. M-x fundamental-mode RET in *stratch*
 >   3. C-h S
 > 
 > with GNU Emacs 29.0.50 of 2022-01-03.  The step 2 above is needed
 > because `C-h S' in an emacs-lisp-mode or lisp-interaction-mode buffer
 > works just fine whereas I get the error in fundamental-mode or
 > Info-mode.  I can't reproduce with emacs 27 or 28.
 > 
 > I'd suggest you do M-x report-emacs-bug.
 > 
 > Bye,
 > Tassilo

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮