From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are bugs discussed on this list? [was: tramp and shell ...]
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8uat41r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171104154629.GA4605@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de)
> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 16:46:29 +0100
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>
> Eli, you are an exceedingly smart person (I say that without
> a whiff of irony). But you haven't walked in a greenhorn's
> shoes (definitely not wrt. Emacs) for quite a long time.
>
> For us mere mortals it is sometimes hard to distinguish
> between PEBKAC[1] and a genuine bug. That's why we (cautiously)
> turn first to this list, perhaps once too often
>
> Be gentle :)
I only ask these questions veteran contributors to Emacs who are quite
able to distinguish bugs from cockpit errors.
Please be gentle with me as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-04 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-04 8:42 tramp and shell, problem on windows 7 Shuguang Sun
2017-11-04 13:42 ` Michael Albinus
2017-11-04 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-04 15:25 ` Michael Albinus
2017-11-04 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-04 15:46 ` Why are bugs discussed on this list? [was: tramp and shell ...] tomas
2017-11-04 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-04 16:19 ` tomas
2017-11-05 3:08 ` tramp and shell, problem on windows 7 Shuguang Sun
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