From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup> <8362vvda2j.fsf@gnu.org> <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290118832 23684 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 22:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Tassilo Horn , "Andrew W. Nosenko" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 23:20:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCq7-0000at-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJCq6-00087k-9S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32905 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJCq1-00087b-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCq0-0002yH-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:39168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCpz-0002y0-Ec; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oAIMKBUW017168; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 918EEA8268; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3683=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132841 Archived-At: > If I were reporting a bug with Emacs going to the wrong column, I > think the minimum effort I should put in is to search for reports with > "column" in the subject. I personally think that's a fair expectation, > but if you disagree with that I'm not going to be able to change your > mind. I don't think this issue deserves as much attention as it's getting. FWIW, I find debbugs's search functionality pretty poor, so even if you try and search for a matching bug, it's likely you'll miss it. Stefan