From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com>, , 32578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:49:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh2w5m56.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8jc2ue4.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:20:03 +0200")
>>>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> On 2018-08-29, at 19:29, Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This patch removes an unnecessary and unwelcoming joke from the
>> drag events documentation. Documentation should be informative
>> and inclusive.
> I'm a bit on the fence about this. On the one hand, I remember
> seeing the joke some time ago and finding it hilarious. On the
> other hand, I remember feeling good about removing other jokes
> from Emacs sources, which were _really_ offensive. This one seems
> to be far, far from offensive anyway, and if anyone feels offended
> by this, they probably well deserve it. Disclosure: I know (and
> often tell myself) jokes about groups of people _I_ belong to
> which are probably much more "offensive" than this one (though
> obviously I may be biased). I can provide a sample on request.
> I don't see how the relevant portion can be seen as not
> informative.
> BTW, I am now coauthoring a book on pretty advanced mathematics
> (nonlinear analysis), and we try to put quite a lot of jokes into
> it. Well-placed jokes do not make a book/documentation less
> informative, but more pleasant to read. (Unfortunately, there is
> nothing about "drag events" in the book.)
> If I were to made a decision, I would probably (a bit reluctantly,
> but still) leave it, so that Emacs does not succumb to the idiocy
> called "political correctness".
> Best,
> -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl
I agree with Marcin's comments and would add that a joke is hardly a
bug. Perhaps the original poster should place the suggestion elsewhere,
maybe emacs.devel?
Best wishes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 17:29 bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation Chris Shea
2018-08-30 7:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-30 7:49 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2018-08-30 9:13 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30 13:51 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-31 6:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-09-02 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-02 3:49 ` Chris Shea
2018-09-03 6:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-30 20:08 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 20:54 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-30 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2018-08-31 1:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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