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Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index
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Karl Berry |
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Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:05:35 -0500 |
We are now approaching the next Texinfo release. Here is my question:
is the collective wisdom that I should write this cookie now, before an
Emacs release has been made that supports it? Or should I wait?
I think the time to add it is now.
Ok, I will.
But isn't this a rather ugly way to do it?
It is ugly, but it is backward-compatible.
In the mail last year, you suggested
* Index:
instead of
* Menu:
in index nodes, which is prettier -- but then old info readers wouldn't be
able to read new info files properly, which seems too big a drawback to me.
The address@hidden stuff, which we invented for images, will also give us an
extensible mechanism, once Emacs Info ignores (and does not display) any
directives it doesn't know what to do with. (I'll attach a test file.)
So in that sense, it is not *too* ugly a solution.
BTW, can someone volunteer to do that? I've asked before, but no one
answered. Maybe we should look for a volunteer to be the official
maintainer Emacs Info? Unfortunately, I don't have time to do it myself.
Thanks,
k
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- reliably determining if an Info node is an index, Karl Berry, 2004/02/19
- Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/21
- Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index,
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- Re: reliably determining if an Info node is an index, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/25
- Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1, Kim F. Storm, 2004/02/25
- Re: Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1, David Kastrup, 2004/02/25
- Re: Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1, Stefan Monnier, 2004/02/25
- Re: Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1, David Kastrup, 2004/02/25