GNU bug report logs - #15038
24.3.50; Doc bug in "(eintr) Change a defun"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: dmoncayo <at> gmail.com

Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 21:39:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#15038: 24.3.50; Doc bug in "(eintr) Change a defun"
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:47:44 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> They are all in error.  From the Texinfo manual:
>
>    * Unfortunately, you cannot reliably use periods, commas, or colons
>      within a node name; these confuse the Info reader.

The 4.13 manual also says "parentheses".

  * Unfortunately, you cannot use periods, commas, colons or
    parentheses within a node name; these confuse the Texinfo processors.
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