From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex] Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:18:25 +0100 Message-ID: <466135E1.5070909@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180775937 22567 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 09:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, karl@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 11:18:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuPl6-0003pC-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:18:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPl5-0004g3-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPl2-0004fg-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPl0-0004fQ-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuPl0-0004fN-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuPkq-0004tv-Jb; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6539950479; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:18:34 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:72045 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > In the long term, we could redesign Info format. However, such a change > takes years to put into place. > Rather than using \: to escape a colon, which would not be backwards compatible so would take years to filter through, it might be a good idea to introduce SGML character entities to texinfo, so a colon could be escaped as : This will only work if &, # and ; do not already have special meaning in texinfo (I don't know enough about the format to answer that but I'm sure many here do). Then if the user is using an older version of info they will see ":enable" in the index instead of ":enable", but at least info will not be confused into doing something wrong.