From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:08:29 +0300 Message-ID: <834ktfk4he.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zdw7ot2.fsf@gmail.com> <837dyck320.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="34630"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 40697@debbugs.gnu.org To: Roland Hughes Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 15:09:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9h7-0008tl-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9h6-0006fr-SA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9h0-0006ff-Fa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9h0-00032h-41 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gz-00031k-Nq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gz-0007my-Ic for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:09:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40697 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40697-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40697.158730172529920 (code B ref 40697); Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40697) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2020 13:08:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44227 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gj-0007mW-A3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43634) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gh-0007mJ-Cx for 40697@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gb-0002TU-QI; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1630 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ9gb-0005Mc-4g; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:08:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Roland Hughes on Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:48:19 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178633 Archived-At: > Cc: stepnem@gmail.com, 40697@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Roland Hughes > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:48:19 -0500 > > The wording in the help text is rather expert friendly. A user coming in > cold to Emacs is going to interpret "prefix argument" as > > [GOLD]-7 REVERSE sort-lines [RETURN] I can only say that I used the terminology and style that are used everywhere in our doc strings.