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Re: Warn about invalid index entries


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: Warn about invalid index entries
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:51:01 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:37:27PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
> 
>     PS Maybe consider adding a --strict flag or somesuch, which will warn
>     about "things that are invalid but which are normally silently
>     accepted for historical reasons"...
> 
> I'm not a fan of generic options like that, but I imagine it would be
> easy enough for Patrice to add an option to warn about this particular
> issue, something like INDEX_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING to go along with the
> INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING he already did.  Patrice, wdyt?

That would be fairly trivial, and there is already a code in comment as
at some point this warning was output in the default case.

-- 
Pat



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