bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

[Glenn Morris]

Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Severity: minor

Grep suggests that doc/ contains 200+ index entries containing colons:

  find . -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@.index.*:' {} +

Info cannot handle colons in index intries, so they don't work.

bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Grep suggests that doc/ contains 200+ index entries containing colons:
>
>   find . -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@.index.*:' {} +
>
> Info cannot handle colons in index intries, so they don't work.

I checked one of these:

./doc/lispref/text.texi:@findex :notification-dispatcher

I went to the elisp index and found the

* :request-dispatcher:                   JSONRPC Overview.    (line  20)

line and I hit RET on that, and I was taken to what was apparently the
correct node and line.

So has this been fixed in the years since this was reported?

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bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

[Glenn Morris]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> So has this been fixed in the years since this was reported?

Only in some info viewers, as I said in my most recent comment.

Ref eg https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-01/msg00055.html

The current texinfo manual still advises against it.

But no comments in 5 years is a good indication that no-one cares,
so wontfix away.

bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:09:35 -0400
> Cc: 16652@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> But no comments in 5 years is a good indication that no-one cares,
> so wontfix away.

Agreed.