Re: TRAMP User Manual problems with Texinfo 5.0

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 07:03:11PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Although I wouldn't have come with the idea to use this macro/set nested
> > to have a kind of if statement in macro.
> 
> As I wrote earlier, this was used to allow a macro invocation with
> some if its arguments omitted. 

Indeed, I understood how it works.

> Is there anything you can suggest as a
> replacement for such a macro?

In line oriented environment, I can't see what can be done.  For the
specific tramp manual, I guess doing different macros depending on the
number of arguments would certainly be the way to go, but for more
generic cases, I don't know what could be done.

It is not very generic though, as it depends on the optional argument
being a possible flag name, so no space, no character not allowed in
flag names.

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Pat