Re: In what version did implicit node pointers debut?

At 2026-01-17T19:13:35+0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 11:40:27AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > A colleague, Alexis Hildebrandt, pointed out that it's no longer
> > necessary in Texinfo input to maintain node pointers (arguments
> > after the first to a @node command). [...]  I can't find a
> > straightforward mention of it in the Texinfo NEWS file.
> 
> I cannot tell if it was already present in previous releases, but I
> just had a look at the code of Texinfo 5.0 and it seems to me that the
> nodes without any directions have directions completed.

Thanks, Patrice!  Looks like I could have put this change in for groff
1.23.0, which bumped our Texinfo dependency from 4.8 to 5.0.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=986d2a5b2d908c9d129f6d486e8839c2ec24f761

Regards,
Branden

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