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#21695: [External] : bug#21695: 25.0.50; Change most occurrences of `setq' in Emacs manual to `customize-set-variable'? Really? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:42:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <97d3ff2c-9e72-4004-88a9-08130ac99a74@default> <838s0fpixr.fsf@gnu.org> <83fsumzylt.fsf@gnu.org> 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="22676"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 21695@debbugs.gnu.org, hmelman@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 05:43:23 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 1mMj3z-0005k4-Bi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2021 05:43:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60392 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3y-000602-BR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3f-0005d4-1i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3e-0005Nz-QY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3e-0004gk-IL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 03:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21695 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 21695-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21695.163081337618004 (code B ref 21695); Sun, 05 Sep 2021 03:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21695) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Sep 2021 03:42:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48933 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3Y-0004gF-Ke for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49212) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3U-0004fr-AT for 21695@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3O-0005Bv-Fl; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMj3K-00013V-KY; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:42:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83fsumzylt.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:17:02 +0300) 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:213448 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. ]]] > Our manual documents Emacs, not every piece of Lisp out there. If > customizable options in 3rd-party packages need different > instructions, the developers of those packages should document them. Well said. We can't take responsibility for everything in the software world that relates to our work. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)