* bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'
@ 2013-11-05 15:39 Drew Adams
2013-11-05 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2013-11-05 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 15810
This text has no business being there:
(We have not explained buffers yet; see *note Buffers::,
for more information about them.)
(We have not
explained variables either; see *note Variables::, for more information
about them.)
Include the cross references, but drop the unhelpful commentary.
This text seems based on an assumption that reading is linear, from page
1 to the current page. This was not true back in the 1980s, when Info
was created, and it certainly is not true today. Reserve such text (if
at all) for the printed manual.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2013-10-19 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 114715 rgm@gnu.org-20131019023520-s8mwtib7xcx9e05w
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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* bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'
2013-11-05 15:39 bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area' Drew Adams
@ 2013-11-05 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2013-11-05 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 15810-done
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:39:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> This text has no business being there:
>
> (We have not explained buffers yet; see *note Buffers::,
> for more information about them.)
It is appropriate for when the manual is read as a book, linearly.
> (We have not
> explained variables either; see *note Variables::, for more information
> about them.)
Irrelevant.
This is not a bug, closing.
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* bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area'
2013-11-05 15:39 bug#15810: 24.3.50; inappropriate text in (emacs) `Echo Area' Drew Adams
2013-11-05 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2013-11-05 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-11-05 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 15810
Drew,
Please get yourself a bzr checkout of the tree, ask for write access to
the repository, and fix those issues.
We'll all live much happier this way,
Stefan
PS: One of the last times I suggested it, you replied something along
the lines that you can't do that. I don't buy it. Maybe you can't do
it from your work computer, but I'm sure you can get access to the
Internet outside of your work, and if you only have computers from your
work, then send me your address and I'll send you a laptop you can use
for Emacs hacking.
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