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24.3.50; Doc bug in "(eintr) Change a defun"

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Message #31 received at 15038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#15038: 24.3.50; Doc bug in "(eintr) Change a defun"
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:39:58 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: dmoncayo <at> gmail.com,  15038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

Yes, but those rarely hit the problem, if they are at the end of the
node name.

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