From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: suggestion: add link to Emacs manual node `Bugs' in report-emacs-bug instructions Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:06:42 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c928b8$385bbec0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <000501c928b5$f21ae410$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87prmckwfi.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223410104 9123 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 20:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Chong Yidong'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 22:09:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnIrs-00049v-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnIqp-0001eN-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnIpd-0001Cu-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnIpZ-0001BO-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40475 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnIpZ-0001BI-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:56727) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnIpY-0000Wi-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m97K6gcg007199; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:06:42 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt701.oracle.com (acsmt701.oracle.com [141.146.40.71]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m97K6f4d030186; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:06:42 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.57.24) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:06:41 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87prmckwfi.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Thread-Index: Ackot0/RMPNLqTAeT5W2pDe35ReyVQAAHLdQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104398 Archived-At: > > 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.