From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info-index fails on node-name "~/.cvsrc" Date: 19 May 2004 12:04:37 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405191550.i4JFobw07535@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084983884 8335 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 16:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 18:24:27 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 1BQTrm-0006GG-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:24:26 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQTrl-0002hX-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:24:26 +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 1BQTa4-0001kp-8X for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQTZf-0001kU-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQTZ9-0001fW-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQTYd-0001bO-5I; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5457221121; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 422588CA23; Wed, 19 May 2004 12:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-Reply-To: <200405191550.i4JFobw07535@f7.net> Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.524, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_01 -1.52) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:23718 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23718 > But note that the entries it generated have a valid format, so we better > accept it. > Is that trailing "5." really a valid format? Not in my mind. > It would probably be trivial to change it to generate "(line 5)" instead > of "5.". No harm in that, regardless of the deprecation, which I agree > with. AFAIK, index nodes are just normal nodes with a big menu. Thus index entries have the same format as menu entries: * NAME: LOCATION. DESCRIPTION It's just that traditionally index nodes use an empty DESCRIPTION and align all the LOCATIONs so it looks like * NAME1: LOCATION1. * NAME2: LOCATION2. Adding a DESCRIPTION of the form "5." is just as valid as "(line 5)". Now if the node has a new special index-tag (can't remember what it looks like), maybe things are different, but with old-style index nodes, it looks perfectly valid to me. Stefan