Re: Emacs buglist old bugs are spamming me now [FW: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I've received over 50 messages like this so far today, out of the
> blue.

Less than 50 here, but same thing.

> Each has an attachment with an old bug-list message (see attachments).
>
> I'm hoping that someone is looking into this, or will do so.

It seems that the "someone" that should be looking into this is
stephen.berman@gmx.net (CCed). Those messages are all related to him.

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> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Subject: RE: emacs-25 f708cb2: Clarify doc string of 'transpose-sexps'
> To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 12:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (2 years, 23 weeks, 1 day ago)
>
>> > It is really not great to tell someone they "cannot" or
>> > "must not" etc. do something without raising an error that
>> > really enforces "cannot" etc.
>> 
>> If someone comes up with a way to lift that restriction, we could
>> remove this text from the doc string.  but as long as the command
>> works as it does, I think we should document that, or else we will
>> have bug reports about its not meeting expectations.
>
> I did not suggest removing the text from the doc string.
>
> The point is that it is better if the code backs up what
> the doc says, by raising an error if you try to do what
> it says you cannot do.
>
> If `C-b' at bob did not raise an error, but instead just
> moved point to the end of line 42, it would be scant help
> to tell users in the doc of `C-b' that you cannot use it
> at bob.
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