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#68970
30.0.50; Info.el: Info-url-alist should support format-sequence that encodes "Top" node as "index"
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Reported by: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 13:55:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #14 received at 68970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
> Cc: 68970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:52:15 +0000
>
> 2024-02-07 16:51 eliz <at> gnu.org:
>
> > Sorry, I don't think I understand: "https://example.com/" stands for
> > "https://example.com/index.html", AFAIK. This is why %e produces an
> > empty string for the Top node. So why would users want to specify
> > "https://example.com/%e.html" instead of just "https://example.com/%e"?
> >
> > IOW, I don't see why users will need to use the .html extension in the
> > alist, it works without the extension.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> Let's assume we have a manual with "Top" node as well as a node called
> "Foo". Let's further assume the webserver is configured so that
> example.com/Foo does not resolve to example.com/Foo.html but rather
> results in "not found".
Why would we assume a strange configuration like that? That's not
what happens on gnu.org, for example. Which documentation sites that
offer Texinfo-derived manuals have such configurations?
> This is why the user must choose to use example.com/%e.html as
> URL-specification currently. But then they have the problem that the
> "Top" node is translated to example.com/.html.
>
> I suggested to add another format-sequence, %i, that translates the
> "Top" node as "index". Thus, example.com/%i.html would translate to
> example.com/index.html in case of "Top".
I understand, but the overlap in functionality between %e and %i is
got to cause some confusion, so if there's a way to avoid that, I'd
prefer it. The code intentionally produces an empty string for "Top",
and there's a good reason for it doing so.
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