Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:45:45 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-gnulib@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > nospam.gnu.org> > > Thanks. This seems pretty reasonable (and easy to implement) to me. > Eli, why do you object to it so

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Berry wrote: > I personally don't feel so strongly about such anti-spamification stuff, Me neither. Hiding an email address seems doomed to failure. You can't hide something that other people need to know about to use. > especially for mailing lists, but I don't see any particular harm in

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > I don't want to make it an option, that would be the most pain of all. > Either in or out. Well, I'm asking for it as an option. If you put it in for everyone, the fact that makeinfo does not generate "mailto:..."; hrefs will appear as a deficiency of makeinfo to many people.

Re: closein, freadahead and ungetc

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > | - freadahead keeps its signature but returns the total buffered bytes > count. This implements it. 2008-03-09 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/freadahead.h (freadahead): Document more precisely. * lib/freadahead.c (freadahead): When an ungetc is i

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks. This seems pretty reasonable (and easy to implement) to me. Eli, why do you object to it so strongly? I personally don't feel so strongly about such anti-spamification stuff, especially for mailing lists, but I don't see any particular harm in

Re: closein, freadahead and ungetc

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > | - freadptr is changed to also return the size of the buffer. > | extern const char * freadptr (FILE *stream, size_t *sizep); > | When the return value is non-NULL, *sizep is set to the size of the > | buffer whose address is the return value. > > Sounds fine t

Re: Add pdf target in doc/.

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote on Thursday: > > Maybe this should documented somewhere? > > > > Sure (as far as I'm concerned), please add it to the manual somewhere. > > The best place I could find was doc/README, is this ok? > > /Simon > > diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README > index 551f539..34f21

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:27:18 +0100 > Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The user cannot reply directly when he is reading a manual in > PDF, Postscript, DVI, or plain text format; he has to copy&paste or retype

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:30:38 +0100 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]}. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@code{}}. > > > > Personally, I don't see a reason not to use @email here. That's why it > > exists. > > How can @email be combined with

Re: fflush after ungetc

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > > On HP-UX 11: > > When reading from the pipe: > > c = '#' > > c = 'i' > > ungetc result = '@' > > c = > > c = > > Bug - C99 requires that ALL streams have at least one byte of ungetc space, > with no limitation on what can go in that buffer. You only invoke > unspecified

Re: fflush after ungetc

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > I'm starting to waffle on what POSIX > requires. Maybe it's worth asking the Austin Group after all? Yes, thanks for asking the Austin Group. > Swapped comments. > ... > Cygwin listed twice. But be aware that there was a change in cygwin behavior > from 1.5.25-10 to 1.5.25

Re: fflush after ungetc

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > But my questions about fflush on seekable input streams after ungetc still > remain. There are also two cases to consider: 1) ungetc of the last byte read, 2) ungetc of a different byte value. Three results are possible: a. set the file descriptor's position to the strea

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > How can @email be combined with anti-spam devices? The more an email address > > is mentioned on the web, the more it attracts spam, and the more spam passes > > the spam filters. > > FWIW, I kinda doubt this makes any difference for gnu.org mailing list > addresses (and

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, Karl, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:30:38PM CET: > Karl Berry wrote to bug-gnulib: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]}. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@code{}}. > > > > Personally, I don't see a reason not to use @email here. That's why it > > exists. > > How can @email be combi

Re: email addresses in texinfo

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote to bug-gnulib: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]}. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@code{}}. > > Personally, I don't see a reason not to use @email here. That's why it > exists. How can @email be combined with anti-spam devices? The more an email address is mentioned on the web, the more it attrac