From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31140: Emacs 26, elisp manual, "Syntax Table Internals", a description of flag 'c' is missing. Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:45:44 +0300 Message-ID: <837epb57av.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180412193409.GA4873@ACM> <831sfj7e3h.fsf@gnu.org> <20180413144607.GA5411@ACM> <83d0z35efl.fsf@gnu.org> <7vh8ofdpwj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523641457 18972 195.159.176.226 (13 Apr 2018 17:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, 31140@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 19:44:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f72k3-0004i2-PS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:44:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72mA-0001mW-Fe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72ly-0001kv-TN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lu-0002rF-7H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lu-0002r6-4i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lt-0007Ai-RO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:46:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31140 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 31140-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31140.152364156027472 (code B ref 31140); Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:46:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31140) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Apr 2018 17:46:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50856 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lr-00078d-PL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35444) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lp-00071n-VD for 31140@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lg-0002kR-4B for 31140@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f72lf-0002kE-KD; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2970 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f72le-0001XS-Qv; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:45:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <7vh8ofdpwj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:36:44 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:145294 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Alan Mackenzie , 31140@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:36:44 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> OK, I've fixed it. But there must be a time coming, fairly soon, when > >> even doc fixes are no longer welcome. > > > > Why would documentation changes become unwelcome? > > They might fail to build in some cases that aren't trivial to spot (eg > with some specific makeinfo version; the manuals being prebuilt in > tarfiles doesn't obviate this because many distributions seem to do > bootstrap builds or builds from git tags); or they might cause problems > with the pdf or html version, which isn't frequently checked. With such simple changes, this is unlikely. > And it creates work for the person making the release, who can't > just release the release candidate, but has to make another one for > frankly trivial reasons. That ship has sailed already, because we have one code change on the release branch which I considered important enough to have. > In short, your interpretation of "release candidate" differs from > mine. We've established that already during the previous release, I don't see why you needed to reiterate that. But feel free to volunteer to be the next maintainer, I will gladly step down that very moment, because I think you are a much better candidate for that job.