Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:51:31 GMT
> From: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> 
> Wrt the general point: as far as I can imagine, the (vast) majority of
> manuals indexing \ sequences would be for C-style \n, \r, etc.  As a
> reader, I would certainly expect those to be indexed under \.
> 
> Wrt \mathopsup: since \ is a special character in Texinfo, I actually
> found it reasonable and useful to have all the \sequences used in
> Texinfo end up together in the index.  That way people can easily see
> all those special \sequences.  There is no other easy way.
> 
> Of course, in regular TeX manuals, it is better to ignore the \ on
> control sequence names, just as it is better to index Texinfo command
> names without the @.  But there are relatively few Texinfo manuals
> relating to TeX.

So I guess we should have an option to enable/disable this feature,
since "one size fits all" clearly doesn't work here?