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Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader


From: Benno Schulenberg
Subject: Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:29:11 +0200
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Op 18-10-2021 om 21:46 schreef Gavin Smith:
> It is technically possible but my preference would be against
> displaying the word "see" in most contexts as it is impossible for a
> manual author to get rid of if they don't want it. You could imagine
> some context where the word "see" shouldn't appear:
> 
> "See other sections in this manual --- @ref{foobar}, in particular."

I see.  Okay.


By the way, there is a buffer-read overrun in gnulib's regex module
that I ran into while using info.  The issue has been fixed upstream,
so it might be a good idea to make a new release relatively soon.

The upstream report is here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-10/msg00035.html

Benno

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