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guild help refers to non-existing info node

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28835: [PATCH] Re: bug#28835: guild help refers to non-existing info node
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:21:48 -0400

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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> While attempting to learn what I could do with guild, I stumbled on the following:
>
> guild help
> Usage: guild COMMAND [ARGS]
> Run command-line scripts provided by GNU Guile and related programs.
>
> [...]
>
> Report guild bugs to bug-guile <at> gnu.org
> GNU Guile home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/>
> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
> For complete documentation, run: info guile 'Using Guile Tools'
>
> Running 'info guile 'Using Guile Tools' brings us to the top of the
> Guile Reference Manual with the following warning in the mini-buffer:
>
> No menu item 'Using Guile Tools' in node '(guile.info.gz)Top'.
>

Apparently, there *is* a node 'Using Guile Tools', but its reference
in the help should read as

    info '(guile)Using Guile Tools'

instead of

    info guile 'Using Guile Tools'

Patch attached.

Maxim

[0001-scripts-help-Fix-reference-to-the-Using-Guile-Tools-.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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