From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:17:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080224190416.AFBCA5D513@indeed> <47C2CC51.8050802@gmx.at> <47C33B7B.9030306@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204129306 9333 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 16:21:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: era eriksson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 17:22:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUP2S-0001nv-Ap for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:21:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUP1v-0000aW-V4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUP1r-0000Zp-6d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUP1p-0000YZ-Iq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUP1p-0000YR-BO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUP1p-00074h-5T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-98.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.98]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m1RGL78a029428 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E8BBAB40C5; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:17:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (era eriksson's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:48:59 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered BAYES_00=-2.5, HAS_X_HELO=0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17603 Archived-At: > You could still argue that there ought to be some sort of wrapper for > the Finder so that users are made aware that they lack a dependency if > they don't have the .el files, but I digress already. Yes, you could report this as a bug to Debian: when using a functionality that requires the .el files (like jumping to the source file or using finder-commentary), catch the error and replace it with a message explaining that the user needs to install the emacs*-el package. Stefan