From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:51:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20101119115117.GA29565@tomas> References: <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup> <8362vvda2j.fsf@gnu.org> <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290166988 7917 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2010 11:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Tassilo Horn , "Andrew W. Nosenko" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 12:43:04 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 1PJPMs-000198-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJPMs-0000aR-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55757 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJPMg-0000XN-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:42:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJPMb-0007cn-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:42:50 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:38897 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJPMT-0007bJ-8q; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 528389006D; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:51:17 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:132851 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:22:50PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote: [...] > If I were reporting a bug with Emacs going to the wrong column, I > think the minimum effort I should put in is to search for reports with > "column" in the subject [...] Don't underestimate the diverse language[1] barriers here. Whatever it is natural for you to call "column" others won't call by that name. Emacs poses a special burden here by having its very own terminology in many places.=20 I concur with you that a bug submitter should *try* finding possible duplicates, but we should expect him/her to fail pretty often. - --------------- [1] "language" meaning native tongue and "local computerese" Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFM5mS1Bcgs9XrR2kYRAjxpAJ43UDr170L60scYCBEfF1I5ECZTWACeLWOJ Q7LPQthswxPZWgCXpRRW49M=3D =3D85Ok -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----