From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:24:22 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200402231805.i1NI5Zt28617@f7.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077716555 3519 80.91.224.253 (25 Feb 2004 13:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 14:42:31 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 1AvzJ1-0007sB-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:42:31 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvzJ1-0005Jk-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:42:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvzB7-0002kg-JO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AvzAj-0002jR-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AvzAA-0002cS-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Avz2T-0001UL-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1Avz1S-0001M9-Na; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:24:22 -0500 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-reply-to: <200402231805.i1NI5Zt28617@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:20182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20182 The ^@^H[ stuff, which we invented for images, will also give us an extensible mechanism, once Emacs Info ignores (and does not display) any directives it doesn't know what to do with. (I'll attach a test file.) So in that sense, it is not *too* ugly a solution. I think we want this change to be released in Emacs soon, if we are going to put it into Texinfo now. We should put it into a 21.4 release that we are going to make soon from the RC branch.