From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:50:26 -0500 (CDT) Sender: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200310030150.h931oQ312488@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200310021318.h92DIWW05772@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310021600.h92G0hI07627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065146294 28945 80.91.224.253 (3 Oct 2003 01:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 03 03:58:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5FCu-0006Ru-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 03:58:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5FCH-0007eB-Gq for gnu-bug-texinfo2@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5FAM-00070R-7Y for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5F9o-0006oH-Tp for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5F9F-0006UO-Tk; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h931sIAJ024404; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:54:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h931oQ312488; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:50:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl In-reply-to: (message from Lute Kamstra on Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:14:28 +0200) X-BeenThere: bug-texinfo@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1209 gmane.emacs.devel:16893 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16893 >>From my previous message: \verb apparently seems to be a LaTeX thing, not a TeX thing. (I got the same "Undefined control sequence." error in TeX, whereas it worked perfectly in LaTeX.) Texinfo uses TeX, not LaTeX. However, according to the Texinfo manual, it should have worked regardless. I believe that the fact that it did not work is a bug in Texinfo (unless I am misunderstanding something). I changed my mind on this, since @verb in isolation seems to work perfectly, in all situations you describe. It apparently is not supposed to be called from within other environments such as @code. So the problem seems to be confined to @defvr. In: @defvar imenu@verb{|--|}index-alist It seems that `imenu@verb{|--|}index-alist' sometimes get treated as implicitly inside an @code (@verb does not work) and sometimes not (@verb works). Of course, this is inconsistent. Sincerely, Luc.