* lisp/info.el (Info-following-node-name-re): Add newline to the list

of allowed characters for leading space.

Fixes: debbugs:9824

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index acefb4f6f15..264a4e8a7e8 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-10-24  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
+
+        * info.el (Info-following-node-name-re): Add newline to the list
+        of allowed characters for leading space.  (Bug#9824)
+
 2011-10-24  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
         * progmodes/octave-inf.el (inferior-octave-mode-map): Fix C-c C-h binding.
diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index 4ccbeba2a47..b8deb3c9c7f 100644
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ Submatch 1 is the complete node name.
 Submatch 2 if non-nil is the parenthesized file name part of the node name.
 Submatch 3 is the local part of the node name.
 End of submatch 0, 1, and 3 are the same, so you can safely concat."
-  (concat "[ \t]*"                      ;Skip leading space.
+  (concat "[ \t\n]*"                    ;Skip leading space.
           "\\(\\(([^)]+)\\)?"   ;Node name can start with a file name.
           "\\([" (or allowedchars "^,\t\n") "]*" ;Any number of allowed chars.
           "[" (or allowedchars "^,\t\n") " ]" ;The last char can't be a space.