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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 72169-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72169: emacs --user documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:32:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkgYk+KoCROS-7j5V46Soq2n3-aLpVqPr-u87J=71T41w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v813ffba.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:24:52 +0800
>>
>> $ man emacs
>>     -u user, --user=user
>>                       Load user's init file.
>>
>> Add:
>>         instead of yours.
>> Or:
>>         in addition to yours.
>
> See "emacs --help" and the Emacs user manual for a better description.
>
> I don't see a need to invest efforts in making the man page better.
> We prefer the Info manual and the on-line help for a reason.
>
> So I'm closing this bug report.

I installed a change to add the words "instead of your own", which is
the same text as in "emacs --help".





  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-18  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-18  3:24 bug#72169: emacs --user documentation Dan Jacobson
2024-07-18  5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18  8:32   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-07-18  8:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21  3:00 ` Richard Stallman

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