@var just became @mvar in the texinfo documentation



On 2013-04-25, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think redefining a builtin thing is usually a bad idea.

Disagreed in this case -- Texinfo's documentation says that @-commands
indicate the kind of stuff in the curly braces, not the mark-up to be
applied to it. Documentation goes on to say that different kinds of
mark-up can be applied to the same stuff. That seems to imply that
redefining @var etc is within the intended use of Texinfo.

I'm opposed to the global replacement of @var by @mvar -- we need to try
harder to figure out how to redefine @var for our needs.

best

Robert Dodier