Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:07:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
cc: Michal Kaczmarek <mk AT arrakis DOT cs DOT put DOT poznan DOT pl>,
        Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Info - problem reading about istream
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> I would say, that in that case (and RHIDE
> accepts such menu entries!) RHIDE works better than info.exe since
> in my opinion the bug is in info.exe and not in the info file (see
> my other posts to this).

Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it seems.  I had a long
discussion with Richard Stallman and the maintainer of GNU Texinfo
distribution, several years ago.  I don't remember the details, but
the conclusion was that allowing `:' in node names will break in some
cases, no matter which solution you try.  (If you describe how does
RHIDE distinguish between a `:' after which there is a node name from
a colon that is to be taken verbatim, I could try to cook a test case
where it won't work ;-).

So the solution is just to not have colons in node names, period.  If
Richard Stallman said that, it's good enough for me (and should be
good enough for the libg++ maintainers).