From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: 23485@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:30:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3o92l7n58.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1d9hhaz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:44 +0200")
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> I think (except in some peculiar circumstances), the place to talk about
>>> "the old behaviour" is in the NEWS file, not in docstrings: The doc
>>> string should talk about current behaviour, because (new) users won't
>>> have seen the old behaviour.
>
>> (Especially since this bug report is now three years old...)
>
> Another way of seeing it: because it took 3 years to answer the bug
> report :'(
Yes, that's what I meant. :-0
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-08 19:42 bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el Uwe Brauer
2019-06-25 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 14:26 ` Uwe Brauer
2019-06-25 14:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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