From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Maintenance of *info* documentation of Emacs/Elisp Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:59:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="59801"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Greg Hill , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 02:00:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1j626i-000FUX-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 02:00:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j626h-00064w-4Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:59:58 +0000 Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id 01O0xvbS020001; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:59:57 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4966.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9540 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 phishscore=0 suspectscore=0 spamscore=0 malwarescore=0 mlxscore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2001150001 definitions=main-2002240004 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9540 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 impostorscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 suspectscore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 priorityscore=1501 mlxscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2001150001 definitions=main-2002240004 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.85 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122464 Archived-At: > Thank you, Drew, but I tried reporting my problems with documentation lik= e that as a "bug" first, got a reply from Steve Berman (actually we exchang= ed several emails, and he helped me out a lot with answers to a number of o= ther non- "bug" questions I had while we were at it), and my understanding = of what he told me about my suggestions re: improving the documentation was= that he couldn't really help me with that, so I should probably take it to= help-gnu-emacs. Perhaps you misunderstood. Or perhaps Steve meant that _he_ couldn't help = with that. But that doesn't mean that someone else can't. Is the bug you filed closed? If not then you can hope that someone will se= e it, agree about the problem, and have the time and will to fix it.