Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Bob Proulx writes:
Not me! :-) It was Vincent Lefevre who wrote:
> >> This is now incorrect (as of 8.23?), because it gives the page:
> >
> > "info touch" still works, which is equivalent to "info '(coreutils)touch
> > invocation'".
I was previously unaware of the parenthetical form.
> >> Note: Since the coreutils utility doesn't seem to exist in Debian, this
> >> section could be removed, but this problem may reappear in the future.
> >> So, it's better to use the capital letter C.
> >
> > Having info dir entries only differing in case seems like a bad idea.
>
> I agree.
I agree too.
> We could rename the node, but the bracketed form works well
> without the need for any extra quoting. I.E. this is unambiguous:
>
> info '(coreutils) stat invocation'
I had not been aware of the parenthetical form. I read through the
info documentation and found this concerning the Emacs internal info
browser:
A node name has two forms. A node in the current file is named by
what appears after the `Node: ' in that node's first line. For
example, this node's name is `Add'. A node in another file is named by
`(FILENAME)NODE-WITHIN-FILE', as in `(info)Add' for this node. If the
file name starts with `./', then it is relative to the current
directory; otherwise, it is relative starting from the standard
directory for Info files of your site. The name `(FILENAME)Top' can be
abbreviated to just `(FILENAME)'. By convention, the name `Top' is used
for the "highest" node in any single file--the node whose `Up' points
out of the file. The `Directory' node is `(dir)', it points to a file
`dir' which holds a large menu listing all the Info documents installed
on your site. The `Top' node of a document file listed in the
`Directory' should have an `Up: (dir)' in it.
I didn't find any other documentation of the format but that appears
to be explicit and it does work.
> The following simple patch implements that.
Seems like the best choice to me.
Note that IIRC originally the pointer was:
info touch
But that failed due to shortcomings in variously implemented
install-info commands that I don't remember now. Therefore this was
changed to "info -f coreutils touch" IIRC and then later mutated again
to "info coreutils 'touch invocation'" to get more canonical.
But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed.
Perhaps we don't need to do any of this anymore? Or perhaps finally
getting to the canonical (FILENAME)NODE-WITHIN-FILE form we have
finally arrived at the end and should stop there.
Bob
