Re: info goto node with dot

[Norbert Preining]

On Fre, 27 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> I briefly grepped through the source, and I think (no promises) the
> relevant code might be the horribly ugly test in skip_node_characters in
> search.c, if you feel like messing with it for a few minutes ...

Hmm it seems that you are right:

At the end of this function we have (essentially)

if (test1 || test2 || test3 || ....
   ||
        (c == '.' && ((whitespace_or_newline (string[i + 1]))))
   break;

So if "c == '.'" and "string[i+1]=' '" then we return the index of the
string. 

So now there is the question:

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

Is there another reason why this is there? I.e., are there other ways to
specify a node where it could be a problem if we say that ". " can be
contained in the Node name?

I don't know the internals of texinfo/info that strong, so please
enlighten me. Maybe allowing this would break recognizing nodes in other
places?

Best wishes

Norbert

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