From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el)
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:37:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831sxlj9ow.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdojiOCm7H4NA=9DJ422u4fcW0JdbrHuKUCx5Bw0D69GqSQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Reuben Thomas on Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:20:24 +0000)
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:20:24 +0000
> Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Why is it useful to remove this information? The documentation of the
> spell-checkers themselves leaves a lot to be desired, so asking the
> users to go consult it might not be appreciated. I'd rather add here
> the missing info about the other spellers.
>
> Emacs is enough for us to document without trying to document third-party software. Since all the software
> involved is free, better to fix it directly, and benefit all its users, rather than take on the burden of documenting
> it in order only to benefit Emacs users.
I agree with the general point, but in this case we are talking about
mentioning a small number of file names in the doc string. Doesn't
seem like a burden to me, and whoever put that information there
probably didn't see it as such, either.
> > * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-version): Since ispell.el is now
> > firmly part of Emacs, and the version hasn’t changed since 2003, and
> > isn’t used anywhere, remove it. 3rd-party code can better use the
> > Emacs version, or feature or function checks.
>
> I agree, but instead of removing the information, how about replacing
> it with the Emacs version? Something like "ispell.el from Emacs %s".
>
> The context is an interactive call to ispell-check-version, which reports what version of the spell-checker is
> being used. If the user wishes to know what version of Emacs they are running, they can check
> emacs-version.
I was thinking about someone using the result to report the version
they have, e.g. as part of a bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-06 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 17:10 bug#25107: Patches to clean up ispell.el Reuben Thomas
[not found] ` <handler.25107.B.148087148014808.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-12-04 22:11 ` bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el) Reuben Thomas
2016-12-05 21:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 16:20 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-06 17:46 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 18:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 21:58 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 0:55 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 19:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 19:45 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 19:45 ` bug#25107: Reuben Thomas
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