From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex] Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180752873 9828 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 02:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 02:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, karl@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 04:54:32 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 1HuJl3-00008N-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:54:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuJl3-00018s-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuJkz-00018d-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuJkz-00018R-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuJkz-00018O-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuJky-0008Ke-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuJkg-0005LO-Rm; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:54:02 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72031 Archived-At: Is there no way to escape a colon somehow, so that Info does not interpret it? The Texinfo manual says that this limitation is because "a colon separates the menu entry name from the node name, so a colon in the entry name confuses Info." If there is no way to escape a colon - to let Info know when a colon doesn't indicate a menu + entry, then shouldn't there be? In the long term, we could redesign Info format. However, such a change takes years to put into place. Instead of doing this, perhaps it would be better to replace the format with a completely new format. I wonder if we could use some limited subset of HTML, so that Emacs could display it even though it doesn't really understand HTML. Meanwhile, any browser could also display it, and standalone Info could be a variant of a browser. Karl, what do you think?