From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: suggestion: add link to Emacs manual node `Bugs' in report-emacs-bug instructions
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:06:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c928b8$385bbec0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prmckwfi.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
> > Seems like we are forever repeating the excellent instructions found
> > in the Emacs manual node `Bugs' (and subnodes) to users in
> > help-gnu-emacs. How about including a link to that node in the
> > `*mail*' buffer's instructions for `report-emacs-bug'?
>
> Do you mean a clickable link?
Yes, that's what I was thinking. Clickable if you have a mouse, `RET'
followable, in any case.
> That would mean that report-emacs-bug behaves differently
> from normal mail buffers.
How so? I'm not familiar with other mail buffers. `report-emacs-bug' is about
the only thing I use Emacs for to prepare a mail message.
> That may not be a bad thing; I'm not sure. If someone
> implements this idea, we could consider it after the release.
Hope someone does. It might save us all time in the long run and lead to better
bug reports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 19:50 suggestion: add link to Emacs manual node `Bugs' in report-emacs-bug instructions Drew Adams
2008-10-07 20:00 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-07 20:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-07 20:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-07 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-07 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-10 18:37 ` Reiner Steib
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