From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [Was: bug#25148:] Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:31:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87v9p3y8oe.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <877e3y5r6x.fsf@gnus.org> <0b8f8b31-29aa-1a33-f70d-38bdaeefc6e5@yandex.ru> <87y2we4boo.fsf@gnus.org> <7c8e41f2-23e1-868b-4db9-e4f800675ee2@yandex.ru> <87woacotw1.fsf@web.de> <83zhf7jisj.fsf@gnu.org> <87tv5eegb0.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="3012"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rms@gnu.org, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, Eli Zaretskii To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 22 13:33:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFC4-0000k9-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:33:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41090 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFC2-0006WC-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFAL-00058k-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:31:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFAK-0004E0-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:31:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:47060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFAK-000499-2u; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iuFAA-0002Za-3s; Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:31:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87tv5eegb0.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2020 03:35:31 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244497 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> How about if we add a bug-reporting-function, to be set by any mode >> that wants to override the default one (which sends email to debbugs)? >> Then report-emacs-bug could be modified to detect the modes active in >> the buffer, and suggest the possible alternatives to the user. I >> think adding to our coding conventions a single variable that in most >> cases doesn't even have to be set will be easier to propagate to the >> few modes which want their own bug-tracking. And users will benefit >> from not having to search high and low for the relevant command. > > Sounds good, yes. But as you describe it, it doesn't cover those cases > where people invoke the command from an unrelated buffer (*scratch* or > so), e.g. because they needed to restart Emacs. Adding some > explanations to the initial text in the bug report buffer of the default > reporting command would thus be good I think. Yeah, people aren't necessarily in a relevant buffer when doing bug reporting for a particular mode. But I guess it wouldn't hurt allowing modes to set the bugs package name automatically. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no