Bug#887634: Info dir trailing whitespace

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Norbert, I have made a massive discovery,

$ wc -l /usr/share/info/dir
464 /usr/share/info/dir
grep -c ' $' /usr/share/info/dir
27
$ grep ' $' /usr/share/info/dir|head|cat -e
* CC Mode: (ccmode).Emacs mode for editing C, C++, Objective-C, $
* Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr).A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp $
* Widget: (widget). The "widget" package used by the Emacs $
* Autotype: (autotype). Convenient features for text that you enter $
* Ediff: (ediff).   A visual interface for comparing and merging $
* Forms: (forms).   Emacs package for editing data bases by $
* RefTeX: (reftex). Emacs support for LaTeX cross-references and $
* EUDC: (eudc). Emacs client for directory servers (LDAP, $
* Message: (message).   Mail and news composition mode that goes with $
* SC: (sc). Supercite lets you cite parts of messages $

All the lines with the trailing blank are mid-sentence folded lines!
The other non-problem lines all have one sentence fit on the same line.

Bug#887634: Info dir trailing whitespace

[Norbert Preining]

> ESC x global-whitespace-mode ENTER
> Do you see any whitespace at the end of some lines?

No.

Not reproducible here. This is Debian/sid with normal installation and
no tinkering of the dir file.

> How did they get there?

No idea, did you do some tinkering with the dir file?

Might depend on the packages installed, though.


Norbert

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Bug#887634: Info dir trailing whitespace

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

$ emacs
C-h i (runs the command "info")
ESC x global-whitespace-mode ENTER
Do you see any whitespace at the end of some lines?
How did they get there?
Yes, it is not the end of the world. But still, something is loose.

Bug#887634: Info dir trailing whitespace

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

Your bug report is so absolutely incomprehensible - what about
explaining what is the problem?

I don't have access to the other emails you have exchanged, so I guess I
need to employ some kind of crystal ball to read from the instellar
background noise the actual problems you had ...

Norbert

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: install-info
> Version: 6.5.0.dfsg.1-1
> Severity: minor
> X-debbugs-Cc: 30...@debbugs.gnu.org, e...@gnu.org
> 
> OK I sent it to Debian install-info package bug list instead.
> 
> > "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii  writes:
> >> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> >> 
> >> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:28:12 +0800
> >> 
> >> Do (info "(dir) Top")
> >> and now turn on show-trailing-whitespace .
> >> Do you see some lines have trailing whitespace?
> 
> EZ> No, not in the file 'dir' provided as part of Emacs.  I'm guessing
> EZ> those trailing spaces are result of updating your system-wide 'dir'
> EZ> file, either manually or by install-info.  In the latter case, please
> EZ> report this to the Texinfo project (preferably with a recipe to
> EZ> reproduce the problem).
> 
> EZ> In any case, I don't think this is an Emacs problem.
> 

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Bug#887634: Info dir trailing whitespace

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: install-info
Version: 6.5.0.dfsg.1-1
Severity: minor
X-debbugs-Cc: 30...@debbugs.gnu.org, e...@gnu.org

OK I sent it to Debian install-info package bug list instead.

> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii  writes:
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>> 
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:28:12 +0800
>> 
>> Do (info "(dir) Top")
>> and now turn on show-trailing-whitespace .
>> Do you see some lines have trailing whitespace?

EZ> No, not in the file 'dir' provided as part of Emacs.  I'm guessing
EZ> those trailing spaces are result of updating your system-wide 'dir'
EZ> file, either manually or by install-info.  In the latter case, please
EZ> report this to the Texinfo project (preferably with a recipe to
EZ> reproduce the problem).

EZ> In any case, I don't think this is an Emacs problem.