Re: make: node "automatic variables" in manual has wrong name

[Francesco Potorti`]

>   fp> File: make.info,  Node: Automatic,  Next: Pattern Match,  Prev: Pattern 
> Examples,  Up: Pattern Rules
> 
>   fp> Automatic Variables
>   fp> -------------------
> 
>   fp> As you can see, the title of the node is "Automatic Variables",
>   fp> which is correct, but the node name is "Automatic", which is
>   fp> wrong: it should be "Automatic Variables" as well.
> 
> There's no requirement in Texinfo, or in the GNU standards that I'm
> aware of, that the node name and the title of the
> chapter/section/etc. be identical.

It may be normal, but in this case it does not make sense, IMO.
Whenever I look for automatic variables in the make manual, and this
happens a couple times a year, enough for me to forget about the issue,
I stumble upon this problem.

I hit `g' from the Emacs info reader, then try completion starting with
`variab' and find two entries that clearly do not matter.  Next I try
`auto' and get two completions: `Automatic' and `Automatic
prerequisites'.  The first completion (which IMO should be `Automatic
vriables' instead) is the right one, but I come to find it after still
more research.

In summary, naming the node `Automatic' is not helpful nor significant,
while naming it `Automatic variables' is helpful, significant, and IMO
very natural.

There is one more reason why I think this is a bug (an oversight on the
part of the authors of the Make manual).  In the node that is the parent
of the `Automatic' node, this is the menu:

================
* Menu:

* Pattern Intro::               An introduction to pattern rules.
* Pattern Examples::            Examples of pattern rules.
* Automatic::                   How to use automatic variables in the
                                  commands of implicit rules.
* Pattern Match::               How patterns match.
* Match-Anything Rules::        Precautions you should take prior to
                                  defining rules that can match any
                                  target file whatever.
* Canceling Rules::             How to override or cancel built-in rules.
================

I'd say that the `Automatic' menu entry stands out for its lack of
meaning.