The manual checks find what they examine by splitting the file on an exact
heading. Ten of the eleven anchors already say what they could not find -
"the Programming Manual has lost its Devices table" and so on. Two did not:
the worked hello world program and the hex dump beside it were reached with
pm.split(anchor)[1] and nothing else, so renaming either produced a Python
traceback and an IndexError.
A traceback is a worse answer than a stale manual. It says a check broke
without saying which heading moved, and it stops the rest of the run, so
whatever else was wrong stays unreported.
Both anchors are now tested before they are used, and both say which one is
missing and what that means. Verified by renaming each and reading the
message.
This is the first of four commits restructuring the Programming Manual, and
it comes first on purpose: the next three move headings around, and they
should be watched by checks that would notice.
IT ALSO CORRECTS THE PLAN. I had written that renaming a heading fails
silently, and set out to fix all eleven. Probing them one at a time showed
that was wrong - ten were already fine, and the job was one check rather
than the whole file. The claim was worth testing before acting on it.
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