Hi, This looks like a bug to me: I have a texinfo manual that has several occurrences of the string 'alloca'. Yet, when I search for this string using Ctrl-S (incremental search), it does not find any occurrence.
$ makeinfo --version makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.11 ... $ info --version info (GNU texinfo) 4.11 ... To reproduce: Go into the doc/ directory of a gnulib checkout and do: $ rm gnulib.info* $ LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split --reference-limit=2000 gnulib.texi $ info -f ./gnulib Move the cursor down to the line "Particular Modules" and press Return. In this page you see already two occurrences of 'alloca'. There are some more in the index. Press Q. $ info -f ./gnulib Press Ctrl-S. Status line says: I-search: Press a. A match is found. Press l. Another match is found. Press l once more. Status line says: Failing I-search: all Another try: $ info -f ./gnulib Press s. Enter alloca. Press Return. Status line says: Cannot find node `(gnulib)Library vs. Reusable Code'. If the info file is OK, why is the string not found? If the info file is not OK, why did makeinfo not warn about it? I did not pass the options --force, --no-validate, --no-warn to makeinfo. Bruno
