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: bug#7521: 24.0.50; doc for `delimit-columns-*' Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:34:37 -0800 Message-ID: <6AF7D745DDFA44439FAE15E2647441AF@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291197108 11564 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2010 09:51:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:51:48 +0000 (UTC) To: 7521@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 10:51:44 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNjLj-00014c-PX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:51:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNjLj-0005tk-6p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:34:38 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcuQxZ/lqQtNT9+AR06wQxvr26cVdg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:47:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:42045 Archived-At: emacs -Q You cannot understand a thing about commands `delimit-columns-region' and `delimit-columns-rectangle' without reading the commentary in Lisp file delim-col.el. In sum, there is no help for users - no doc. Not only that, if you are tempted to try these commands on a regular region of text, you will likely see no change at all - the buffer isn't even modified. This is because these commands only affect regions and rectangles that contain text formatted in a certain way. This is all explained in detail in the source file commentary, `delim-col.el'. But none of it is available to users via *Help*. Similarly, the defcustoms are little help. They explain nothing. Users must consult the source file to understand _anything_ about this feature. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-11-22 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include'