Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2015-07-15 18:06:42 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:06:03 +0900
> > From: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
> > Cc: 792328@bugs.debian.org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>,
> > 	Texinfo <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>
> > 
> > What about encoding sub-dirs in the dir file with'::' like:
> > 	* Emacs: (emacs-24::emacs).      The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> > 
> > Then one could do
> > 	info emacs-24::emacs
> > etc?
> 
> Please don't make characters other than slashes magic in file names.
> Next thing we will hear is someone asking how to use a file name with
> a real colon.

However using a real colon in a filename may not be a good idea due
to potential conflict with URL schemes, for programs that accept both
filenames and URL's as arguments.

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