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Re: Some links to external manuals not followable in Info output
From: |
Patrice Dumas |
Subject: |
Re: Some links to external manuals not followable in Info output |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Apr 2024 12:09:04 +0200 |
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 09:56:40PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> If a cross-reference appears like
>
> @xref{,,, texi2any_api, GNU Texinfo @command{texi2any} Output Customization}.
>
> with no first argument, then this is output in Info like
>
> *Note (texi2any_api)::.
>
> - with no node argument following the manual. The Info browser (at least
> recent versions of it; I checked 6.8 and 7.1) cannot follow such links
> (I didn't check with Emacs). However, texi2any does not warn about
> such constructs.
Here is a patch for the Info reader. It passes the tests and in a test
with a minimum info file, followed a cross-reference as above. But I
may have overlooked interactions with other parts of the code.
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Pat
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