Gavin Smith <[email protected]> writes:

>> So, the issue is not with makeinfo, but with some .info readers? Is it
>> only Emacs, or is it also something else?
>
> As far as I know it is just the stand-alone Info program and Emacs which are
> significant Info browsing programs.  We implemented this quoting mechanism
> in makeinfo but as far as I know it was never supported in Emacs.  It won't
> work with older versions of stand-alone Info, of course.

> There are also the info2html program, the "info" kioslave/kioworker in KDE
> (as far as I remember - I couldn't easily find any information online
> if this still existed), and there may be one or two other programs or systems
> that embed Info browsers (possibly the Maxima computer algebra system although
> I've never used it).  To a lesser degree people may have developed their
> own programs for working with Info files that have not got a wider use.

So, it boils down to working around the bugs/unsupported features in
Info readers? If the bug were to be fixed in Emacs, would it warrant
that the warning can be dropped for quoted commas?

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