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bug#12110: 23.4; woman.el error on non-numeric arg


From: Kevin Ryde
Subject: bug#12110: 23.4; woman.el error on non-numeric arg
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:36:18 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux)

Processing the file ip.1 below with

    (woman-find-file "ip.1")

gets an error

    Symbol's function definition is void: nil

with backtrace ip-backtrace.txt below.

The .IP line in ip.1 is bad in that the indentation arg is not a number
but I hoped woman would give some warning log and then continue
formatting the rest.

Putting the debugger on woman-parse-numeric-value suggests the two
skip-syntax-forward calls end up putting point in the middle of the .SH
request on the next line.

I wonder if woman-parse-numeric-value should confine itself to the
current line, per diff below.

2012-07-31  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * woman.el (woman-parse-numeric-value): Don't go past end of line for
        a bad value or expression.  Ensures point isn't moved part-way into a
        request on the following line, such as
        .IP "str" (notanumber)
        .SH FOO

I struck this in the sdbm.3 man page

    http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJBS/perl-5.16.0/ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3

which has a bad .IP line for the author.  Maybe the quotes should be on
the whole string, but in any case it'd be good if woman didn't error out.

    .SH AUTHOR
    .IP "Ozan S. Yigit" (oz@nexus.yorku.ca)
    .SH BUGS


Attachment: ip.1
Description: Text document

Attachment: ip-backtrace.txt
Description: Text document

Attachment: woman.el.badnumeric.diff
Description: Text Data



In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-04-08 on biber, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 
'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
'--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security 
-Werror=format-security -Wall -DDEBIAN -O2' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

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: en_AU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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