GNU bug report logs - #17476
24.3.91; [PATCH] unimplemented info entry

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:55:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, patch, wontfix

Found in version 24.3.91

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 17476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17476: 24.3.91; [PATCH] unimplemented info entry
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:30:22 +0300

> From: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 17476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 02:53:10 +0900
> 
> >This is invalid Info.  Please ask Cygwin maintainers to fix that.
> 
> It's valid, maybe even in non-dir nodes.

Valid, assuming the menu item is a _node_ name:

  When the menu entry name and node name are the same, you can write the
  name immediately after the asterisk and space at the beginning of the
  line and follow the name with two colons.

    For example, write

       * Name::                        DESCRIPTION

  instead of

       * Name: Name.                   DESCRIPTION

As you see, "Name" here is the name of a node, not of a file.

What is invalid is to write

  * foobar::

and assume that Info will look for a _file_ named "foobar".
This bug report was last modified 11 years ago.

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