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23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>, <webmasters <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:57:12 -0700

emacs -Q
C-h C-f
g Emacs for MS Windows
 
This is the node:
 
 There is a separate FAQ
 (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html) for Emacs on
 MS-Windows.  For MS-DOS, *note Emacs for MS-DOS::.
 
That first link's URL is bad. I get this when I click it:
 
404 - Page Not Found
The page you were looking for could not be found on our server.
 
If you think this is our fault, please email the GNU Webmasters
<webmasters <at> gnu.org>.
 
To continue, please go to either the section of the website you requested or to
our homepage.
 
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GNU General Public License (GPL) 
Happy hacking!
 
 
 

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
 

Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <4508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,
        <webmasters <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#4508: 23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:44:52 -0700

FYI - The problem is that the right paren is included as part of the link. If
you remove the right paren, then the URL is OK and the link works.

Message #20 received at 4508-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 4508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4508: 23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:49:02 +0200

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:44, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:

> FYI - The problem is that the right paren is included as part of the link. If
> you remove the right paren, then the URL is OK and the link works.

I've fixed it by making Info-try-follow-nearest-node to follow the
information extracted by Info-get-token. Parentheses in URLs are valid
but apparently not very frequent (outside of Wikipedia).

If this change causes trouble with URLs containing parentheses,
perhaps changing the regexp passed to Info-get-token would be an
option; but currently the Emacs-supplied info files do not have any
such URL.

    Juanma

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