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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, <1351@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1351: 23.0.60; Provide doc strings for functions in replace.el
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:05:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006501c947c2$20385500$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uod0gmheh.fsf@gnu.org>

> > Would you like to write some? If not, pass. Let me save you 
> > the trouble of responding uselessly to bug reports - feel
> > free not to bother.
> 
> That was unnecessarily harsh, Drew.  There was nothing wrong with what
> Glenn wrote, neither in form, nor in essence.  Pouncing on him for
> that is not fair at all, given the amount of work he invests in
> maintaining Emacs in general, and diagnosing and fixing bugs in
> particular.
> 
> Perhaps you were having a bad day.  We all do from time to time.

Funny. I feel exactly that way about Glenn's message. It was uncalled for:
unnecessary, unhelpful, irrelevant, and impertinent. Perhaps he was having a bad
day.

Wrt my language, which you quoted: I simply echoed his language.

As to the substance - the rest of my reply, I simply explained why I sent that
particular bug report, even though no such explanation should be necessary.

There was no need to reply to the report as Glenn did. His reply did not advance
anything; it was merely sarcasm and provocation.

If it's not helpful to send doc-string bug reports then I'll take Glenn's advice
and save myself the trouble. In that case, his message to not bother will have
served some purpose.







  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-16  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <18721.11954.779606.826706@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-11-15 19:20 ` bug#1351: 23.0.60; Provide doc strings for functions in replace.el Drew Adams
2008-11-15 22:58   ` Glenn Morris
2008-11-15 23:27     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-15 23:43       ` Glenn Morris
2008-11-15 23:50         ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-11-16  0:06     ` Drew Adams
2008-11-16  4:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-16  8:05         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-11-16 21:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-16 23:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-17  8:50   ` bug#1353: marked as done (c-put-char-property-fun alias problem) Emacs bug Tracking System
2014-02-10  3:38   ` bug#1351: 23.0.60; Provide doc strings for functions in replace.el Lars Ingebrigtsen

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