From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:30:47 -0800 Message-ID: <001a01c8795e$1c85da00$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <20080224190416.AFBCA5D513@indeed> <47C2CC51.8050802@gmx.at> <47C33B7B.9030306@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204129952 12225 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 16:32:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'era eriksson'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 17:32:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUPCM-0006fq-E7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:32:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUPBq-0008C2-B4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUPBk-0008B6-Ko for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUPBj-00089J-Jh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUPBj-00088m-DY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUPBi-0002b9-N1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m1RGVBYF002143; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:31:11 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m1RCousw011789; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:31:08 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3591829911204129849; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:30:49 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.187) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:48 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ach5XQkAKm33t/+oRXyA2sP8kYg9AwAAJcQw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17604 Archived-At: > > You could still argue that there ought to be some sort of > > wrapper for the Finder so that users are made aware that > > they lack a dependency if > > they don't have the .el files, but I digress already. > > Yes, you could report this as a bug to Debian: when using > a functionality that requires the .el files (like jumping to > the source > file or using finder-commentary), catch the error and replace it with > a message explaining that the user needs to install the > emacs*-el package. Maybe the byte-compiler should preserve the Commentary, since some runtime code depends on it? ;-) Half-kidding. There's also a large variation in the amount and quality of Commentary doc. This feature is of only limited value.