Subject: Re: bug#48402: Remove hand-written node pointers from cc-mode.texi

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 20:04:55 +0000

Hello, Glenn.

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 13:22:13 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Package: emacs,cc-mode
> Version: 27.2
> Severity: wishlist

> * doc/misc/cc-mode.texi: Remove hand-written node pointers.

> Texinfo can figure these out automatically. It makes changing the node
> order much easier. This change was made for the main Emacs manuals in 2012.
> cc-mode.texi is the last remaining texi file with hand-written node pointers.

Just as a small matter of interest, do texinfo-4.7 - 4.13 cope with
these new-style node pointers?

> --- i/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
> +++ w/doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
> @@ -219,10 +219,9 @@ or can be downloaded from @url{https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/}.
>  @summarycontents
>  @contents
 
> -@node    Top, Introduction, (dir), (dir)
> -@comment node-name, next, previous, up
 
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