bug#4508: marked as done (23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL)

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> 23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL
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> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:57:12 -0700
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> emacs -Q
> C-h C-f
> g Emacs for MS Windows
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> This is the node:
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>  There is a separate FAQ
>  (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html) for Emacs on
>  MS-Windows.  For MS-DOS, *note Emacs for MS-DOS::.
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> That first link's URL is bad. I get this when I click it:
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> 404 - Page Not Found
> The page you were looking for could not be found on our server.
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> If you think this is our fault, please email the GNU Webmasters
> <webmasters@gnu.org>.
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> To continue, please go to either the section of the website you requested or to
> our homepage.
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> What is Free Software? 
> Linux and GNU 
> A detailed history of the GNU Project 
> GNU General Public License (GPL) 
> Happy hacking!
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
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> Re: bug#4508: 23.1; (efaq) Emacs for MS-Windows has bad URL
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> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:49:02 +0200
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> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:44, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
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> > FYI - The problem is that the right paren is included as part of the link. If
> > you remove the right paren, then the URL is OK and the link works.
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> I've fixed it by making Info-try-follow-nearest-node to follow the
> information extracted by Info-get-token. Parentheses in URLs are valid
> but apparently not very frequent (outside of Wikipedia).
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> If this change causes trouble with URLs containing parentheses,
> perhaps changing the regexp passed to Info-get-token would be an
> option; but currently the Emacs-supplied info files do not have any
> such URL.
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>     Juanma
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