Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 04, 2026 at 04:49:58PM +0000, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Yes, but not right now, I think that it would be better to let some time
> pass, such that it is unlikely that the file would be seen with an old
> Info reader.  I checked that the support in the console Info reader
> dates back from about 2014, which is old enough in my opinion, but if
> the Emacs Info reader was fixed now, waiting for some years (5?) may be
> better, in my opinion.

+1

> Here is what we have about missing features in the Emacs Info reader in
> the Texinfo TODO:
>
>   - Info format - Get Emacs to support : in index entries by changing
>     the interpretation of index nodes slightly.  See
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2019-01/msg00235.html
>     Get Emacs to support node name quoting. See
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2022-08/msg01756.html

I did a quick look into the bug reports and into info.el implementation,
and it looks to me that the problem is with ::, not with @comma. Or do I
miss something?

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