From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: [Bug] in newcomment.el Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <15845455-0728-4255-883c-8732ffd79dab@default> References: <87txkvjqis.fsf@gmail.com> <87li67jpi2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371581109 26220 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 18:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris , Thorsten Jolitz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 20:45:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up0tr-0000ZZ-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up0tq-0003vy-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up0tc-0003ph-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up0tZ-00026k-UW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:51827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up0tY-00026A-BX; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r5IIicst017182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:44:39 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IIiehi017507 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:44:41 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt103.oracle.com (abhmt103.oracle.com [141.146.116.55]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5IIie4M006084; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:44:40 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91595 Archived-At: > A shame neither of the people prompting you to report bugs suggested > searching for existing reports first. A minor bother, perhaps, but no shame. The important thing is to get the (doc) bug fixed. If it takes another bug report (and apparently it did in this case), so be it. But yes, sure, if there already is a report (or two), then presumably no additional reporting is needed. ;-) > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D14376 >=20 > With some familiar commenters. Including this clairvoyant comment from me ;-): >> FWIW, a comment in the source code is hardly documentation for the >> functions concerned. Doc strings... >> >> See also bug #12583... This will probably keep coming up ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> until there is some mention of it in the actual doc. Thanks for documenting this now. This thread has additional information/guidance about this issue: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D12583