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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 50775@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#50775: ispell help message times out before most people can read it
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 12:38:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkEHhk_ov3UH3jTry5McSXHJQsXEahbJTEDnfbKH4dsSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fstspjxo.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> We've been having that for eons, so changing the default now should
> only be done if we have a very good reason.  You have a customizable
> variable now, so why not change the value for your convenience?
>
> Let's not let the tail wag the dog: it's a minor issue, no need to
> turn the world around each time we add some minor convenience.

[ Removing a timeout for a message does not exactly amount to "turning
  the world around"... ]

We don't avoid fixing minor issues just because they are old, do we?
That's not something I have ever heard proposed before.

For all we know, users have been frustrated with this for ages, but no
one told us about it until now.

That said, the other alternative I proposed was increasing the timeout
to 10 seconds to give the user enough time to read it.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-25 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24 13:13 bug#50775: ispell help message times out before most people can read it 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-24 13:52   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 14:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-24 14:34       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 15:39       ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-24 16:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 18:57           ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-25 19:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25  2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25 18:17   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 18:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 19:38       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-25 19:44         ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-25 19:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26  6:30         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-26  6:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 11:32             ` Stefan Kangas

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