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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>
Cc: 32142@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32142: WG: 26.1; Problems with flyspell-region
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:44:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lh1bz5r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <912664a1-96e1-1a91-7b86-97184cf62aaf@yahoo.de> (rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de)

> From: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>
> Cc: 32142@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:15:12 +0200
> 
> > I object to the "unable or unwilling" part of your complaint.
> > I was just stating the fact that the feature you expected was > missing from Emacs, because no one designed and coded it.
> 
> My "complaining" and your "stating of the fact" are both subjective 
> perceptions.

No, a fact is not a subjective thing.

> My point of view is as follows: I took several e-mails to fix (if only 
> in the documentation) an obvious issue I had reported correctly and I 
> had to insist. Your answers were selective, side-stepping the problem. 
> Your tend to answer in an authoritative way, kind of supporting or 
> defending the current implementation, or negating the existence of a 
> problem. It is a frustrating exercise. This is not the first time that 
> this kind of "resistance" happens to me with open source projects, or 
> with the Emacs developers. It is in fact a recurring pattern.

What you perceive is "selective", "side-stepping", "authoritative",
and "defensive" responses were just my attempts at understanding the
issues in full, that's all.

> I guess we could start a new bug about ispell, couldn't we?

You could, yes.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-14 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <745366070.6138533.1531494673065.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-07-13 15:11 ` bug#32142: WG: 26.1; Problems with flyspell-region R. Diez
2018-07-13 19:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 20:22     ` R. Diez
2018-07-14  7:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 15:15         ` R. Diez
2018-07-14 15:44           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-07-14 15:56           ` Eli Zaretskii

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