Re: [5516] first support for quoting node names

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>     I found with using the NUL BS [
>     style quoting it would crash the info browser for some reason
>
> 4.13 doesn't immediately crash for me on files with the image or index
> markers (are you using a distro's info, or compiled from the original
> source?), but anyway, I do have some memory of Sergey fixing a bug for
> version 5 in this regard.
>
This was in a file I prepared which used NUL BS [ node ... NUL BS ] to
quote node names to see how well it worked. There's no problem with
image tags.

>     SPACE BACKSPACE
>
> See no benefit to that direction.
>
>     I don't think there is much harm in using DEL.
>
> Sure, unquestionably desirable for any new files to work as well as
> possible with info 4.13, which argues for DEL instead of NUL-anything,
> given your crashes.
>
> The simplicity of using a single DEL does seem appealing.  Still, I
> wonder if it would be more flexible somehow to use, say, DEL DEL as the
> marker.  Then in theory we could use DEL <somethingelse> to do something
> else in the future.  But I admit I can't think of what that could be.
> Just thought I should bring it up so it can be considered.

The only problem I can think of is if it somehow conflicts with an
unusual character encoding. How different character encodings
can/should be used could be an issue that be looked at at the same
time as this.

I expect I can keep the implementation of quoting to a couple of
functions where it can easily be turned off or changed to whatever
method  is finalized upon.