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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
	"Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:51:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101119115117.GA29565@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k8vd3unx79.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:22:50PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:

[...]

> If I were reporting a bug with Emacs going to the wrong column, I
> think the minimum effort I should put in is to search for reports with
> "column" in the subject [...]

Don't underestimate the diverse language[1] barriers here. Whatever it is
natural for you to call "column" others won't call by that name.

Emacs poses a special burden here by having its very own terminology in
many places. 

I concur with you that a bug submitter should *try* finding possible
duplicates, but we should expect him/her to fail pretty often.

- ---------------
[1] "language" meaning native tongue and "local computerese"

Regards
- -- tomás
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup>
     [not found] ` <E1PIgwj-0000gB-1H@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <20101117163514.GA6164@shi.workgroup>
2010-11-17 19:28     ` bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-17 19:41       ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-18  7:48         ` Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column) Tassilo Horn
2010-11-18  8:19           ` Searching bugs before filing new ones Glenn Morris
2010-11-18 10:14           ` Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column) Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-18 16:40             ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-11-18 18:19               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-18 21:22               ` Searching bugs before filing new ones Glenn Morris
2010-11-18 22:20                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-19 11:51                 ` tomas [this message]
2010-11-19 20:29                   ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-21 20:10                     ` tomas

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