From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 55569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55569: Improve documentation of mail-user-agent
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 09:18:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czg62fx9.fsf@cassou.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8ty6q1o.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Eli,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> +@code{mh-e-user-agent}. Additional options may be available; check
>> +with the author of your mail user agent package for details. You may
>> +also define another mail user agent using `define-mail-user-agent'.
>
> Thanks, but what do you mean by "the author of your mail user agent
> package"?
I mean that the authors of notmuch and mu4e both define a symbol to be
used as value for the `mail-user-agent` variable: `mu4e-user-agent` and
`notmuch-user-agent`. These symbols should be documented somewhere in
notmuch and mu4e manuals so their users know they should pass them to
`mail-user-agent`. There might be other mail user agent packages out
there that I don't know about.
> This is an Emacs user manual, and I very much doubt that
> Emacs users could figure out where and how to check that.
>
> Can we provide more practical advice here how to check for those
> additional options?
I could certainly mention the symbols for notmuch and mu4e if you think
that is ok to mention external packages inside the Emacs manual but I'm
not sure what else I could do.
--
Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-22 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-22 6:16 bug#55569: Improve documentation of mail-user-agent Damien Cassou
2022-05-22 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-22 7:18 ` Damien Cassou [this message]
2022-05-22 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-22 7:48 ` Damien Cassou
2022-05-22 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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