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Broken menu entry in manual, section 4.1

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: HiPhish <hiphish <at> posteo.de>
Cc: 32473-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32473: Broken menu entry in manual, section 4.1
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:21:07 +0200

Hello Hiphish,

HiPhish <hiphish <at> posteo.de> skribis:

> I noticed a broken menu entry in the Info version of the Guix manual: the node 
> `Defining Packages` (4.1) has an extra space between the last word and the 
> closing colons:
>
> 	* package Reference ::	The package data type

Oops, I’ve fixed this now in guix.texi (commit
fa4ebd2f08d0acc25feca827f7e43e8774843a10).

> The standalone Info reader tolerates it, but not the Info.vim reader, which 
> considers the space to be part of the target node name. Neither the Texinfo 
> manual (section 4.9) nor the Info manual seem to allow for this extra space, 
> so it looks like a bug in the manual to me.

Would it make sense for Info.vim to be bug-compatible?

Thanks for your report,
Ludo’.

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