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Re: info goto node with dot


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: info goto node with dot
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:57:32 -0600

    What was the reason that node names cannot contain the sequence
            ". " or ".\t" etc
    ??

The only thing I can think of is that it is somehow related to the dir
file, which contains entries like this, with a period followed by
whitespace:

* Bash: (bash).                     The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
...
* yes: (coreutils)yes invocation.               Print a string indefinitely.

Actually any menu entry can contain such things, but it's only typical
in the dir file.

I can't see any fundamental reason why the above should be broken, and
Emacs Info is proof-by-example that it can work, but it's all I can
think of.

So my suggestion is, try getting rid of that test, and see if things
basically work (and "matching vs. searching" can be found).  If it looks
ok, let's go for it.  You see in the #if 0 there that I already got rid
of one other overly-restrictive whitespace-related test.

Thanks,
Karl




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