Re: [help-texinfo] Consecutive spaces in node titles?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tim Landscheidt <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:03:14 +0000
> 
> | address@hidden ~/src/emacs]$ zgrep 'Secure\?' /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz
> | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> | * Secure?  Conform?::           Is Bison POSIX safe?
> | File: bison.info,  Node: Multiple start-symbols,  Next: Secure? Conform?,  
> Prev: Implementing Gotos/Loops,  Up: FAQ
> | File: bison.info,  Node: Secure? Conform?,  Next: I can't build Bison,  
> Prev: Multiple start-symbols,  Up: FAQ
> | 11.6 Secure?  Conform?
> | File: bison.info,  Node: I can't build Bison,  Next: Where can I find 
> help?,  Prev: Secure? Conform?,  Up: FAQ
> | Node: Secure? Conform?364602
> | address@hidden ~/src/emacs]$
> 
> Note the one vs. two spaces between "Secure?" and "Con-
> form?".

I could argue that using 2 sentences with 2 spaces between them as a
node name is a minor bug in the Bison manual (which, btw, is still not
fixed in the latest version 2.5).

> This led to the question in
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/56847:

You mean, address@hidden ;-)

> | Does this mean that info (GNU texinfo) 4.13 treats a sequence of spaces
> | in the names as one space character?
> 
> So I turn to the wisdom gathered here :-).

As I responded there, the answer is YES.  The Info reader
canonicalizes the whitespace in a node name before it uses it for
search, and it also searches in a way that ignores excess whitespace
in the target string.