From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info bug with @xref{Sample .emacs File, , , ccmode, the CC Mode Manual}. Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:44:53 -0600 Message-ID: <200512122344.jBCNirw06590@f7.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134431264 17573 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 23:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 00:47:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElxO1-0003LF-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:47:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElxOW-0005Dx-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:47:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElxMJ-0003f7-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElxMI-0003e9-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElxMI-0003du-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.34.169.74] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ElxO2-0004ss-LS; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:47:18 -0500 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id jBCNirw06590; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:44:53 -0600 Original-To: eliz@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47578 Archived-At: > More to the point, makeinfo has never given a warning about it. So many documents do not follow this convention that I think it would do more harm than good to have a warning about it. As has been noted, in practice there are many circumstances where a period works out ok. The manual disallows it because I don't wish to try to enumerate when it is ok and when it isn't. The right fix (as I've said before) is to change Info format to allow arbitrary characters in node names. We've discussed this at some length, but no implementation has been done :(. karl