From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
Cc: 68970@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68970: 30.0.50; Info.el: Info-url-alist should support format-sequence that encodes "Top" node as "index"
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:51:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867cjgz5rm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fry44bz6.fsf@posteo.de> (message from Mekeor Melire on Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:27:35 +0000)
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:27:35 +0000
>
> The new option Info-url-alist allow users to add custom mappings from
> manual-names to URLs. When the URL-SPEC is provided as string, users may
> use the %e format-sequence. But in the most common case, namely when
> URLs need to use a .html-suffix, this is not usable:
>
> In the case of the special "Top" node, the %e format-sequence resolves
> to "", i.e. the empty string. It is thus not possible to use a URL-SPEC
> like "https://example.com/%e.html" because "https://example.com/.html"
> is invalid. The user rather wants "https://example.com/index.html" in
> this case.
Sorry, I don't think I understand: "https://example.com/" stands for
"https://example.com/index.html", AFAIK. This is why %e produces an
empty string for the Top node. So why would users want to specify
"https://example.com/%e.html" instead of just "https://example.com/%e"?
IOW, I don't see why users will need to use the .html extension in the
alist, it works without the extension.
What am I missing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-07 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-07 13:27 bug#68970: 30.0.50; Info.el: Info-url-alist should support format-sequence that encodes "Top" node as "index" Mekeor Melire
2024-02-07 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-07 19:52 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-02-07 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-07 22:10 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-02-08 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 20:20 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-02-09 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-09 22:00 ` bug#68970: [PATCH] In Info-url-alist, add .html extension to %e format-sequence Mekeor Melire
2024-02-10 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 13:16 ` Mekeor Melire
2024-02-10 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 22:41 ` bug#68970: [PATCH v2] " Mekeor Melire
2024-02-11 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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