From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: 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) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:18 +0100 Message-ID: <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> References: <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup> <8362vvda2j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290066520 26907 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 07:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:48:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 08:48:36 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIzEP-0001MD-Ma for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIzEO-00021o-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44014 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIzEG-0001zM-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIzED-0002T8-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:27124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIzED-0002So-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0BC780158F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26378-07 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:19 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.localnet (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A977801548 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:19 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:132813 Archived-At: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 20:41:28 Glenn Morris wrote: Hi Glenn, > May I suggest searching for subject keywords before filing a bug? Or > looking at the N newest bugs. Yes, you may, but as long as checking related/duplicate bugs is not a part of the usual bug filing procedure (aka M-x report-emacs-bug), it won't have an effect, I guess. It would be great if M-x report-emacs-bug would query for "Bug keywords" first (e.g., tty cursor column), then somehow query the bug database and show a buffer with possibly related bug subjects including links to the bugtracker. Then a user should be able to either say "nope, I have a different bug" and file a new one, or attach to one of the listed bugs. I don't know if debbugs has some interface for querying the database, or a better output format than the result html page. But even that doesn't look awfully hard to parse to rip out the link to the bug and its subject... Bye, Tassilo