From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kyle Meyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52126: Problematic characters in info node names Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87tufue02l.fsf@kyleam.com> References: <871r2zueyw.fsf@gnus.org> <60pmqihlmr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33924"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 52126@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen , Protesilaos Stavrou To: Glenn Morris , Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 05:32:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mruoZ-0008en-K4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:32:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34290 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruoX-0006N0-P1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:32:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruoE-0006Mq-Qb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56685) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mruoE-0007dQ-I0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mruoE-0006VY-8n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:32:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Kyle Meyer Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 04:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52126 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 52126-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52126.163824670324993 (code B ref 52126); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 04:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52126) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2021 04:31:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39998 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mrunv-0006V2-18 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:31:43 -0500 Original-Received: from out2.migadu.com ([188.165.223.204]:20805) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mrunr-0006Us-V3 for 52126@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:31:41 -0500 X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kyleam.com; s=key1; t=1638246694; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=umHqIuaIXoPU31WUs2t02hkgsHs/QsdtIKcvl83LkhA=; b=SvmX1ZZ0N0mctFiveLYBYq4DB/fBhTMIC86tLnCd7p8Gb/qnrYA6tiXHdfgxMBgaEjW9rT Ho3edMvOw5dZ7537GJEvJwNY1wLvmV6ndM1a9IEr8WfGl3Ef91nl3O8cDMWcxBIhvzIRk3 XSdj5vUot+0G88Pf4LVDw22I2szH8YxFd5bxaKwoS0jZvAkcm8zyZZ1bQXDg9VZbLlMsjx UUDICe1p7J30cpnmKdd0DiyzVRwX5XK50P4CVKNQZ7cnkqCt9grWPis604Qnyk+GyqO+/H 2fmrRuEElcbor8kUWfsU5fSmUhch5AVbSXig3bH6eOIURuPQTgKkjQM1rpZ4/A== In-Reply-To: <60pmqihlmr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221098 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Stefan Kangas wrote: > >> Did something change here since the above note in admin/release-process >> was written in 2013 (commit 16bcc96df4)? > > Yes. It's easy to find old versions of the Texinfo manual, eg > http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/texinfo/Node-Line-Requirements.html > > Newer Texinfo is less strict, but Emacs configure still claims to > support 4.13. I wonder whether 4.13 actually has a problem with the cases flagged in this issue, where the parentheses are not at the start of the text. Texinfo's ab404029d0 (parens only disallowed when looks like an external manual ref, 2011-09-18) made the following text change: @cindex Characters, invalid in node name @cindex Invalid characters in node names @cindex Node names, invalid characters in -Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or parentheses -within a node name; these confuse the Texinfo processors. Perhaps -this limitation will be removed some day, too. +Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, or colons within a node +name; these confuse the Texinfo processors. Also, a node name may not +start with a left parenthesis and contain a right parenthesis, as in +@code{(not)allowed}; this specifies an external manual in Info. +Perhaps these limitations will be removed some day, too. That looks to be a pure documentation update to more accurately describe the restrictions. The commit message links to a thread [*] that seems to confirm that. There Patrice Dumas says What is not allowed, in reality, and leads to an error message is parentheses beginning at the beginning of the node name as you said: @node (man)bad c.texi:6: Syntax for an external node used for `(man)bad' [*] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2011-09/msg00024.html