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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 10057@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file'
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F66BC64FD27247CA8778798B2BDFDE38@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrb0p2nf.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

> Drew, it's __so difficult__ to figure out from your documentation
> bug reports what and how you actually want to fix

It's a joke, right?  What part of this problem statement (your "what") is so
difficult to understand?

 >> This says only what a value of `t' means.
 >> It does not say what other non-nil values mean.

As to "how" I would like it to be fixed, that really doesn't matter much, does
it?  It should be enough to point out the problem, especially in a trivial case
such as this.

In any case, I did say how I would like to see it fixed:

 >> Please state clearly and completely what NOERROR means.

However that might be done would be fine with me.  The "how" isn't important.

So far, we explain what a `nil' value means and what a `t' value means.  That's
clear as far as it goes, but it is not complete, which means that in the end it
is also not clear.

Singling out the particular non-nil value `t' this way leaves the reader
wondering.  Unless, that is, s?he assumes Stefan's general rule that anything
not mentioned is unpredictable and unsupported.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 20:30 bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file' Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-15 21:56   ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 22:17     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-15 22:21       ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-15 22:08   ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16  2:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16  2:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16  3:05       ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16  3:24         ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-16  5:23           ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16  4:22         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16  5:24           ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16  8:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 14:52               ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 18:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 18:29                   ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 18:43           ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-16 19:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 17:03         ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 18:29           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-16 19:31             ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 20:04               ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 20:28                 ` Juri Linkov

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