From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: suggestion: add link to Emacs manual node `Bugs' in report-emacs-bug instructions Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:23:48 +0200 Message-ID: <48EBC554.9050501@gmail.com> References: <000501c928b5$f21ae410$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87prmckwfi.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <000701c928b8$385bbec0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223411257 13167 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 20:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 22:28:33 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 1KnJAN-00047h-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnJ9K-0004jv-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnJ9F-0004jo-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnJ9D-0004ja-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34903 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnJ9D-0004jX-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:38090) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnJ9C-00059V-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:62027 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KnJ6l-0006B1-3f; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:24:51 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <000701c928b8$385bbec0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081007-0, 2008-10-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KnJ6l-0006B1-3f. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KnJ6l-0006B1-3f 82ece22d72983935de13b4288916ee53 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:104399 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> 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. Just insert a text button, try this (defun insert-bug-info-link () (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (insert-text-button "Reporting Bugs" 'action (lambda (btn) (info-other-window "(emacs) Bugs"))))) I think the best would be to install such a change right now. It will help getting Emacs 23.1 out of the door.