Re: [help-texinfo] Using @ref with two arguments

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:25:09PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:49:50 +0200
> > From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> > Cc: help-texinfo gnu <address@hidden>
> > 
> > in general I would suggest not using an @*ref command with a non
> > empty second argument.
> 
> I don't understand why.  FWIW, I use it quite a lot, and find it very
> useful.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that if the node name is to be
replaced, in general the replacement text could be the same for the
printed manual and the online manual, which would mean an empty second
argument and a third argument.  It obviously depends on the use and the
person.

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Pat