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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
Cc: 889@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:02:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rt2f8ck.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0e09b3b-cdea-4a2e-b05f-2cb7cb2c0965@www.fastmail.com> (message from era on Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:09:54 +0200)

> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:09:54 +0200
> From: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
> Cc: 889@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, at 20:31, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > Nobody had an opinion here in a month, so I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
> 
> The actual  bug report here is that  the description of what "recover-buffers" does is vaguely wrong.
> 
> I reported it because I came across people who thought it was supposed to do more.

The current doc string says:

  Recover auto save files from a previous Emacs session.
  This command first displays a Dired buffer showing you the
  previous sessions that you could recover from.
  To choose one, move point to the proper line and then type C-c C-c.
  Then you’ll be asked about a number of files to recover.

This is quite descriptive, IMO, but if you can point out where are the
potentially confusing parts, maybe we could make it even better.

For example, if we reword the first sentence like this:

  Recover your edits saved in auto-save files by previous Emacs sessions.

will the doc string be less confusing?  Any other suggestions?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04 16:28 bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" fails "No files can be recovered" Yary Hluchan
2008-09-05  9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-05 16:39   ` Yary Hluchan
2011-07-06 18:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-06 11:56 ` bug#889: Reopen #889 era eriksson
2022-02-20 14:01   ` bug#889: 23.0.60; "Recover Crashed Session" is misleading Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-21 18:31     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-22  5:09       ` era
2022-03-22 13:02         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-02-26  7:29 ` bug#889: recover-buffers moved era eriksson

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