From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info-index fails on node-name "~/.cvsrc" Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:38:52 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5567-Tue18May2004093852+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <200404221659.i3MGxBx20232@f7.net> <8765bohe4i.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87k6zamf5e.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084862697 9315 80.91.224.253 (18 May 2004 06:44:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 08:44:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPyLI-00058t-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 08:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPyLH-0001tP-01 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 08:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPyJV-0005aG-BY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 02:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPyJP-0005a2-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 02:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPyIt-0005TH-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 02:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPyIs-0005T2-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 02:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.142.184]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id CXA02235; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:40:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Juri Linkov X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <87k6zamf5e.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 18 May 2004 09:18:53 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23617 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23617 > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:18:53 +0300 > > Glenn Morris writes: > > I noticed that Info-index now fails in the VM info pages (it works OK > > in 21.3). The index entries all take the format: > > > > * vm-move-messages-physically: Sorting Messages. 5. > > > > and a typical error message is: > > > > i sort -> "No such node or anchor: Sorting Messages. 5" > > How did you produce this Info index in such non-standard format? I think it's a new feature of Texinfo 4.7, which was released recently. > So I propose the following solution: if an Info node is not found and > its name contains the period, then try to find a node with a part > of the name after period removed. I think we should try to make the stand-alone Info and the Emacs Info reader support the same features in identical or at least equivalent ways. It is very confusing to have two different behaviors in two GNU packages that both are of such a central importance for the GNU project. Such differences add to maintenance burden (as, for example, makeinfo needs to consider Emacs features and misfeatures when it is developed), and make the job of documenting Info in info.texi harder. So what I suggest is for the Emacs Info reader to be amended to support the index format introduced in Texinfo 4.7, in a manner that is as close as possible to what the stand-alone reader does.