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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 16652@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:09:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pjr23ng44g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736g44jhf.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:18:36 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> So has this been fixed in the years since this was reported?

Only in some info viewers, as I said in my most recent comment.

Ref eg https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-01/msg00055.html

The current texinfo manual still advises against it.

But no comments in 5 years is a good indication that no-one cares,
so wontfix away.







  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-08  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05  8:42 bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons Glenn Morris
2019-10-07 16:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-08  6:09   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-10-08  8:25     ` Eli Zaretskii

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