From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indices in Info. Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:17:35 +0300 Sender: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9743-Tue24Jun2003071734+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200306240342.h5O3guf14997@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056428399 3269 80.91.224.249 (24 Jun 2003 04:19:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:19:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 24 06:19:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UfHe-0000qP-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:19:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UfGw-0007Vb-GV for gnu-bug-texinfo@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UfGa-0007MO-1Y for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UfGH-0006HS-Oc for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UfGE-0005yb-9m; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:18:26 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (tony08-235-202.inter.net.il [80.230.235.202] (may be forged)) by gandalf.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.5-GR) with ESMTP id AXL89355; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:18:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200306240342.h5O3guf14997@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:42:56 -0500 (CDT)) Original-cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org X-BeenThere: bug-texinfo@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1086 gmane.emacs.devel:15204 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15204 > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:42:56 -0500 (CDT) > From: Luc Teirlinck > > g (texinfo)Concept Index > > Click on: > > * $Id:: GNU Sample Texts. This menu entry should not be there. It's a bug in texinfo.txi and/or makeinfo. > Proposed solution: Just institute a convention that an index entry > should never end in a colon. The Texinfo manual already disallows such cases. But there's a need to support node names with colons (think about a manual about a C++ library, for example), so there are various hacks out there to get Info readers to have some support for that. > If it is worth while for Emacs Info to support those computer > programming language terms, it might also be worth while for the > stand-alone version to do so. True; but doing that is not easy. The stand-alone Info doesn't use regexps when it searches for specific text patterns such as the one in a menu, and the same code is used for cross-references and whatsnot. IMHO, these tricky cases should be solved by a change in the Info file format, not by hacks specific to this or that reader.