GNU bug report logs - #2975
`texinfo-master-menu' doesn't work.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:40:06 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 2975 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: winkler <at> gnu.org
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, stepnem <at> gmail.com, 2975 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2975: texinfo-master-menu and emacs.texi
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:17:41 -0800

    > So, given that makeinfo can add the info itself when needed, is there
    > really ever any need for listing the node pointers explicitly at all?

    If Karl or whoever could answer this question with a clear "no, these
    node pointers are never needed"

I believe Eli answered this, but to reiterate, it is only (very)
exceptional manuals which might need node pointers.

So if you're asking if texinfo-mode needs to keep supporting them, I
would say, definitely not.  In fact, I think it would be a good thing if
it didn't.  I have seen many authors have unnecessary problems due to
texinfo-mode inserting the node pointers.

k
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