On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 07:06:36PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > I saw this line had been added to NEWS: > > . Info: > . Output a single hyphen at the start of a definition line > > This change was in commit 3ee7ac39a8 (dated 2024-07-06, applied 2024-09-29). > > The effect of this change is to have one hyphen rather than two: > > - -- Library Function: int foobar (int F---OO, float B--AR) > + - Library Function: int foobar (int F---OO, float B--AR) > > I'm concerned whether this change to Info output for definition > commands is necessary. Wouldn't it be better just to leave this output > alone as people will be used to having it with two hyphens? Was it ever > only one hyphen in the past (e.g. with Texinfo 4.13, before the Perl > rewrite)?
It is indeed not necessary and could very well be reverted, either by using --- that will become --, or setting code style for the leading --. I hesitated a lot about whether to discuss the change or not, but in the end I did not as it seemed to me to fall in the non semantic changes that we consider, in general to be ok. I probably should have. In any case, given what Eli found in the archive, I think that it is better to revert. -- Pat
