Re: address@hidden: documentation error in m4 online help]

[Bob Badour]

You might be able to stick with a relative URL if you use:

"../../emacs/manual/emacs.html#Regexps"

(Assuming every installation uses a similar directory structure.)

Karl Berry wrote:

> Bob, thanks for the report.  The current version of m4 (1.4.4) does have
> an updated address for reporting bugs in the README, address@hidden
>
> As for the Emacs reference, cross-manual references in HTML output from
> Texinfo manuals are something not completely worked out at this point.
> What's needed is some configuration file to allow specifying what to do
> with them.  I've had some discussion about this, but haven't implemented
> anything yet.
>
> I don't think the m4 manual really needs to do anything at this point,
> unless you folks feel like going to the extraordinary measure of
> postprocessing the HTML output with a sed/perl/whatever script to fix
> the href.
>
> Best,
> Karl (Texinfo maintainer, supposedly :)
>
>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:43:42 -0300
> From: Bob Badour <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: documentation error in m4 online help
>
> In the section on regular expressions, the link to the emacs
> documentation for the regular expression syntax is bad.
>
> Where you have the relative url in the href at
> <a href="emacs.html#Regexps">Syntax of Regular Expressions</a>
>
> You need to have the absolute url
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#Regexps instead:
> <a
> href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#Regexps";>Syntax
> of Regular Expressions</a>
>
> Currently, it link gets a 404 trying to load a page at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/emacs.html#Regexps
>
>
> P.S. The published email address for reporting bugs is no longer valid:
>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
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> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>    address@hidden
>      SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT 
> TO:<address@hidden>:
>      host mx10.gnu.org [199.232.76.166]: 550 *.ai.mit.edu no longer in 
> use.  use @gnu.org instead.
>
>
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