Re: info goto node with dot

[Norbert Preining]

On Fre, 27 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> My guess is a parsing problem in standalone info.  Otherwise I'd expect
> all the nodes to be unfindable, not just the one with the period in the
> name.

Ahh, bingo... I found the problem. It is really a parsing, and only in
the case when
        ". "
is in the node name. I took texinfo.txi from texinfo-4.8 together with
version.texi and fdl.texi.

Then I changed all references from
        GNU Free Document License
to
        GNU.Free.Document.License
(in texinfo.txi, and the @section in fdl.texi), and it still worked.


Then I changed all references from
        GNU Free Document License
to
        GNU. Free.Document.License

and boing, I cannot go the the node.

So it seems *not* to be dependend on the actual files names (the info
file still is called txinfo(-1..)), only on the node name with ". "

Is it documented somewhere that node names *SHOULD NOT* contain "."?
If yes, we can also forget about this and close this bug, because info
is not used according to the documentation, misuse.

What do you say?

Best wishes

Norbert

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