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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 41096@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41096: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand docstring
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 21:28:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r1vykzhz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkbF-2WBLCJgC3GzFqNcrdYsvnAJZ4uw7Xkr8R=aiwMWg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 5 May 2020 20:05:40 +0200)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 20:05:40 +0200
> Cc: 41096@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The thing is that I don't understand the docstring as a whole.  The
> first part is fine, but the joke confuses me and makes me wonder what
> I missed.

Here's one attempt to de-confuse it:

     Non-nil means don't add '-f username' to the sendmail command
     line.  Using that option would be even more evil than leaving
     it out.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-05 15:33 bug#41096: message-sendmail-f-is-evil has hard to understand docstring Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 17:37 ` Glenn Morris
2020-05-05 18:05   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05 18:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 13:27       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 18:28     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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