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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: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32473: Broken menu entry in manual, section 4.1
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:35:37 +0200

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

> On Montag, 20. August 2018 12:21:07 CEST you wrote:
>> > 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?
>
> I considered that, but I don't think it's a good idea: it's better to fix a 
> bug (when feasible of course) than to sweep it under the rug with some hack. 
> If the bug is fixed, it's fixed for everyone, if I make Info.vim bug-
> compatible I make my reader harder to maintain and that bug still persists and 
> will eventually bite someone when they want to implement their own Info 
> reader.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense to me.  Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.

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