From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <16fa7034-ece7-3290-31fe-cac2f603c979@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1716"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 46627@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 07:30:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyXs-0000I0-Lv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 07:30:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39278 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyXr-0000aK-OG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyXi-0000Zt-Hz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:30:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyXi-0006b2-AX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:30:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyXi-00069Y-6n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 06:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46627 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 46627-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46627.161466655723555 (code B ref 46627); Tue, 02 Mar 2021 06:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46627) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Mar 2021 06:29:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51438 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyWz-00067r-G1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56622) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyWx-00067b-ET for 46627@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyWr-0005ss-He; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lGyWo-0000mJ-Ia; Tue, 02 Mar 2021 01:29:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 1 Mar 2021 16:13:33 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:201187 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > "Trials" in Emacs itself are not so great, IMO. > Someone puts something on a branch That way of tryialing something has a drawback as you say: > trial and feedback. But the only people who try > it are Emacs Dev aficionados who build Emacs or > pull stuff from Git etc. The way I suggest handling these is to put them in the release, then tell people a command to run to try them. That makes it easy to try them out. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)