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 16:01:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080224190416.AFBCA5D513@indeed> <47C2CC51.8050802@gmx.at> <47C33B7B.9030306@gnu.org> <001a01c8795e$1c85da00$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204146147 12605 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2008 21:02:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'era eriksson' , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 27 22:02:52 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 1JUTQ2-0001LN-Pl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:02:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUTPW-0004A6-H2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUTPS-00049w-M2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUTPQ-00049O-Tc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUTPQ-00049L-QH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUTPP-0007by-W3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAB9exUdMCpz5Wmdsb2JhbACQXgEgnTGBAg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,415,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15308091" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 27 Feb 2008 16:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.156.249]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id HXC87146; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 79A9A7F25; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <001a01c8795e$1c85da00$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:30:47 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:17605 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. > Maybe the byte-compiler should preserve the Commentary, since some runtime > code depends on it? ;-) > Half-kidding. There's also a large variation in the amount and quality of > Commentary doc. This feature is of only limited value. If by "this feature" you mean finder-commentary, I somewhat agree. But the feature to jump to the source code OTOH is very important to encourage people to contribute. Stefan