Re: AW: AW: problems with display of info files in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:32:59 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:16:35 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > The problem with highlighting any number in parentheses in nodes that
> > include footnotes exists in any version of Emacs.  However, clicking
> > on a number that doesn't correspond to a footnote number in that node
> > will say that there's no valid reference there, so it's not really a
> > catastrophe.
> 
> As a workaround, you can use
> 
>   @footnotestyle separate
> 
> in the Texinfo source, which will create a separate node for each set
> of footnotes of a node, and will generate references to those
> footnotes in a way that doesn't conflict with random numbers in
> parentheses.

And I've now fixed the Emacs Info reader to not highlight numbers in
parentheses unless they are in the range 1..FNMAX, where FNMAX is the
last footnote number in the node.

This fix will only be available in Emacs 26.1, though.