Re: info.el dots in node names

[Kevin Ryde]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>
> BTW, it would be best if you could end up with just a regexp, so
> that it can also be used to build the completion tables and
> stuff (which require the matching to be fast, i.e. no elisp).

I started in that direction, then realized Info-following-node-name
was where it all happened.

The only thing with a regexp would be that in theory there's three
cases,

        - default allowedchars in Info-following-node-name
        - Info-extract-menu-node-name disallowing "."
        - Info-extract-menu-node-name disallowing "." and allowing "\n",
          under the multi-line option

It might be nice if a node name could be parsed out context-free, but
I'm not sure if it's possible.