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: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:26:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bk8rxyia.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734u352rm.fsf@posteo.de> (message from Mekeor Melire on Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:10:25 +0000)
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:10:25 +0000
>
> 2024-02-07 22:18 eliz@gnu.org:
>
> > > Let's assume we have a manual with "Top" node as well as a node called
> > > "Foo". Let's further assume the webserver is configured so that
> > > example.com/Foo does not resolve to example.com/Foo.html but rather
> > > results in "not found".
> >
> > Why would we assume a strange configuration like that? That's not
> > what happens on gnu.org, for example. Which documentation sites that
> > offer Texinfo-derived manuals have such configurations?
>
> Yes, gnu.org does allow to omit the .html suffix.
>
> I am working on an Emacs package that will provide more entries to
> Info-url-alist. That's why I have a tentative list, as you requested, at
> hand, indeed. Here's a list of entries that require a .html suffix:
I tried several of those, and they all work without index.html. For
example, these work for me:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/annotate
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/stabs
https://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/html-manual
https://orgmode.org/manual
Some of them also work with a trailing slash, some don't.
So I still don't see why we would need %i.
> > I understand, but the overlap in functionality between %e and %i is
> > got to cause some confusion, so if there's a way to avoid that, I'd
> > prefer it. The code intentionally produces an empty string for "Top",
> > and there's a good reason for it doing so.
>
> The "good reason" is only to keep URLs a little shorter, if possible,
> for ease on eyes. :)
>
> Another idea would be to let users specify two URL-SPECs: One for the
> Top-node; another for non-Top nodes.
I'd prefer this latter alternative.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-08 6:26 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
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 [this message]
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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