@var just became @mvar in the texinfo documentation
Subject: @var just became @mvar in the texinfo documentation
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:57:10 +0100
Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> OK, I asked the Texinfo developers about redefinition of @var and they
> said it's discouraged, although there isn't any strong reason for it,
> and one of them said he has mixed feelings about that policy.
>
> So at this point I'm still against the patch. I'm willing to put up with
> the warning message about redefining @var -- it is harmless.
Cool. Sorry that I haven't gotten around to reverting it yet. I've
actually spent a bit of time trying to refactor the info file parsing
stuff to run at build time (sensibly). I thought I'd make sure
everything worked with the info files compiled under both versions and
ask for review before pushing.
That, and I spent most of the weekend playing in an opera :-/
Since I made a bit of a mess merging in the var -> mvar change, it's not
completely trivial to revert, but it should only take half an hour or
so. Would you like me to do it immediately? I was planning to try to
work out whether we could just convince Texinfo to decorate its @var in
the way that we want, rather than undefining and redefining it.
Rupert
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