From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22306: 24.5; Unhide --no-line-directive Documentation Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:58:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83si1zfccc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4800524ec80e46f5845c868a713dbbc0@mspexmb1.Beer.Town> <83vb72mszt.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452848436 11958 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2016 09:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jim_muchow@dell.com, 22306-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 10:00:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Ex-0002UN-Fb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:00:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Et-0000ik-OJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Ep-0000iV-MT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Ek-00079m-Np for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Ek-00079d-Kj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:00:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Ek-0006pH-Eg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:00:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 22306 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 22306@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, jim_muchow@dell.com Original-Received: via spool by 22306-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D22306.145284834626133 (code D ref 22306); Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22306-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Jan 2016 08:59:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49627 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Dq-0006nQ-37 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57544) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Dp-0006mx-3H for 22306-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0Dj-00073I-5z for 22306-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:59:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0DZ-00072J-65; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4671 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aK0DW-0004jW-MC; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:58:47 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:26:55 +0100) 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111632 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:26:55 +0100 > From: Francesco Potort́ > Cc: 22306@debbugs.gnu.org, James Muchow > > >Francesco, > > > >Are there any reasons to keep this option (and a few others) hidden > >from the user eyes? > > For this specific otion, the logs say that I undocumented it in 2002. My forensic investigation of the history indicates that it was first introduced in 2002, and undocumented in 2007. > As far as I can recall, this was because the option seemed too much > technical to me, that is of little use and difficult to explain. I > think I adopted the same criterion for undocumenting the other options. Well, it seems this option is useful when the original file is no longer available, which is a legitimate, albeit rare, use case. So I un-hided it, and also documented it in etags.1 as the fire-escape in these rare use cases. I'm therefore marking this bug done. Thanks.