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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Instead of introducing yet another syntax for info URL's, wouldn't it
> be nicer to support the two (incompatible, *sigh* [1]) forms that are
> already used elsewhere -- from url(7)
>
>    info - Info page documentation
>        info:virtual-filename
>        info:virtual-filename#nodename
>        info:(virtual-filename)
>        info:(virtual-filename)nodename

What's incompatible about them?  If a file name happens to start with
"(", you're in trouble, but I think most info file names don't.

It should be easy to grok both variants.
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