From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs Subject: Re: Indices in Info. Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:04:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200306241326.h5ODQEc27294@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056465148 5686 80.91.224.249 (24 Jun 2003 14:32:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 24 16:32:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UonF-0001EQ-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:29:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Uoqp-0000O2-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:32:51 +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 19UofZ-0008Bd-Aq for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UoZZ-0006b9-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19UoXt-0005q5-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UoPm-0002WT-4g; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CA7146E2; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:04:52 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) X-Yow: Send your questions to ``ASK ZIPPY'', Box 40474, San Francisco, CA 94140, USA In-Reply-To: <200306241326.h5ODQEc27294@f7.net> (Karl Berry's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:26:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Original-cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15210 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1092 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15210 karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: |> Yes, I agree, as we've discussed before. We shouldn't make complicated |> rules about when colons are acceptable and when they're not, according |> to the regexp du jour. Instead, we should just support everything. The problem with that is that the info format does not have a way to quote special characters, so you will always come up with cases that fail. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."