GNU bug report logs - #16652
Texinfo index entries should not contain colons

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 08:43:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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Report forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#16652; Package emacs. (Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:43:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #3 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:42:21 -0500
Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Severity: minor

Grep suggests that doc/ contains 200+ index entries containing colons:

  find . -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@.index.*:' {} +

Info cannot handle colons in index intries, so they don't work.




Message #4 received at 16652-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16652-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:09:45 -0500
Glenn Morris wrote:

> Info cannot handle colons in index intries, so they don't work.

Looks like some of them may work since Texinfo 6.4.
Ref https://debbugs.gnu.org/34023#14




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bug#16652; Package emacs. (Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:19:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #7 received at 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:18:36 +0200
Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Grep suggests that doc/ contains 200+ index entries containing colons:
>
>   find . -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@.index.*:' {} +
>
> Info cannot handle colons in index intries, so they don't work.

I checked one of these:

./doc/lispref/text.texi:@findex :notification-dispatcher

I went to the elisp index and found the

* :request-dispatcher:                   JSONRPC Overview.    (line  20)

line and I hit RET on that, and I was taken to what was apparently the
correct node and line.

So has this been fixed in the years since this was reported?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Message #10 received at 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:09:35 -0400
Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> So has this been fixed in the years since this was reported?

Only in some info viewers, as I said in my most recent comment.

Ref eg https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-01/msg00055.html

The current texinfo manual still advises against it.

But no comments in 5 years is a good indication that no-one cares,
so wontfix away.






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Message #13 received at 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16652: Texinfo index entries should not contain colons
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:25:33 +0300
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:09:35 -0400
> Cc: 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> But no comments in 5 years is a good indication that no-one cares,
> so wontfix away.

Agreed.




bug closed, send any further explanations to 16652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:49:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:24:08 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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