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From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22984@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:18:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9gcemrj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8360wsiwv8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:27:07 +0200")

At 22:27 +0200 on Friday 2016-03-11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> How about the following variant?
>
>   This will suggest the file name of the default binary to debug; if
>   the suggested default is not the Emacs binary you want to debug,
>   change the file name as needed.
>
> (This avoids the potentially confusing word "load", and also makes it
> clear we are talking about debugging Emacs, not some other program.)

Yes, that's better. It clearly states its meaning.

Did you see the following suggestion in my earlier message. [I wasn't
sure if you'd missed it, or if you'd decided it wasn't valid.] This was
with regard to etc/DEBUG not being about the Elisp debugger.

At 14:30 -0400 on Friday 2016-03-11, N. Jackson wrote:
>
> However, the file is named "DEBUG" and the title is "Debugging GNU
> Emacs", so it is by no means obvious that this is not the right file to
> look at.

[to find information about the Elisp debugger]

> So perhaps the title should be something like "Debugging GNU Emacs with
> GDB", and perhaps it should start out by saying something along the
> lines of
>
>     This file is about debugging Emacs with GDB.  For information about
>     the Lisp debugger and about Edebug (the source-level debugger for
>     Emacs Lisp programs), see the node "Debugging" in the Elisp manual.

Regards,
N.






  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11 15:18 bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG N. Jackson
2016-03-11 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 18:30   ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 18:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 19:06       ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 19:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 20:12           ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 20:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 21:18               ` N. Jackson [this message]
2016-03-12  8:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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