From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20697: 25.0.50; Mention `M-x report-emacs-bug' on splash screen Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 03:06:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87a76oyx21.fsf@marxist.se> References: <874l2az3r3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <5d8f820c-4029-45cf-8fd7-b1fc44f8e6e3@default> <5e1c6ad4-5c01-4989-bbcf-7e398ba9ede6@default> <4496bd9e-58ee-45b5-967d-3402ce4999bd@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="19060"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 20697@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 03:08:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iruaZ-0004un-5P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Add a new item (or reformulate an old one) on the splash screen. > 2. Add something to the "Contributing" page about feature suggestions. > > I'm not too enthusiastic about option 1, but I've re-attached my patch > which tries to do 2. (They are not mutually exclusive.) > > Any other opinions, please? No one besides me and Drew has commented so far, and we both seem to be in favour of the above patch. Drew had some suggestions for improvements which I've incorporated into the below patch. I also took the time to just make it much shorter and simpler (down to two sentences now). Are there any objections to pushing this patch to the release branch? Best regards, Stefan Kangas --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-diff Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0001-Document-feature-requests-in-the-Emacs-manual.patch >From 0fdbf284a97f31147c8d081536d6b57784d93a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Kangas Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:27:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document feature requests in the Emacs manual * doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Contributing): Document how to send feature requests. (Bug20697) --- doc/emacs/trouble.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi index 9cbcf20610..33f67f2b44 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi @@ -1299,6 +1299,17 @@ Contributing @end ifhtml You can ask for suggested projects or suggest your own ideas. +If you have a feature request or a suggestion for how to improve +Emacs, the best place to send it is to +@ifnothtml +@email{bug-gnu-emacs@@gnu.org} +@end ifnothtml +@ifhtml +@url{https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs, bug-gnu-emacs} +@end ifhtml +. Please explain as clearly as possible what change you would like to +see, and why and how you think it would improve Emacs. + If you have already written an improvement, please tell us about it. If you have not yet started work, it is useful to contact @ifnothtml -- 2.20.1 --=-=-=--