From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
To: carlmarcos@tutanota.com
Cc: YE <yet@ego.team>, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
56870@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:09:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ro4rl4l.fsf@rfc20.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <N8_1vEG--3-2@tutanota.com>
carlmarcos@tutanota.com writes:
> Aug 3, 2022, 18:41 by matt@rfc20.org:
>
>> I think the maintainers are quite receptive to improvements like
>> this.
>
> I completely disagree. The experience with maintainers has shown how
> unreceptive they often get towards improvements like this. Lars
> thought there isn't anything to fix in Emacs and decided to close this
> bug report.
I think reasonable people can disagree about what is and is not a
problem, is or is not an improvement, or even misunderstand eachother
entirely. Sometimes patience and additional explanations are the way to
move forward.
In this case, I agree with Lars that the company-dabbrev docstring is
consistent with Emacs' usual way of writing docstrings. I don't
actually see a clear way to improve the one docstring in isolation
without it becoming inconsistent with the rest of Emacs. And so, I
would expect any improvement here to involve some discussion, since the
path forward isn't obvious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 17:09 UTC|newest]
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2022-08-01 3:54 bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-01 21:24 ` Matt Armstrong
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2022-08-04 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-04 17:48 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-08-04 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-08-05 11:36 ` carlmarcos--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2022-08-06 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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