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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:08:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-e45558bc-28cc-4b20-940c-dffddb0dea50-1606565330637@3c-app-mailcom-bs12> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dq5ordu.fsf@gnu.org>

Always listening to positive applause is not a good strategy.
Had superiors like that.  Terrible.


> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 8:46 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:15:58 +0100
> >
> > And if you ask for help everybody is suddenly quiet.  I would be pissed
> > off.  I don't know where Eli's motivation comes from.
>
> My motivation comes from the urge to keep improving the Emacs
> documentation.  I cannot possibly do that with "criticism" that just
> says our documentation sucks and should be rewritten, because that's
> not useful: I don't know how to convert that to any useful list of
> things to fix.
>
> And, of course, saying that the manuals should be rewritten is a clear
> sign that the person probably doesn't know how to use the Info mode
> efficiently, and probably didn't read too much of said documentation.
> Which further diminishes the useful payload of such claims.
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-28 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-24 17:05 Auto Fill Comments Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 19:42 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 19:52   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 20:02     ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 20:53     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-25  0:56       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  4:40   ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-27  4:56     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  5:47       ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-25  7:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-11-25  7:59   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26  3:56     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 15:13       ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 15:23         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 16:00           ` tomas
2020-11-26 17:22             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 17:35               ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:27               ` tomas
2020-11-26 18:44                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 19:19                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:16                   ` tomas
2020-11-26 20:29                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:44                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:14                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:51                   ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27  0:47                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  1:57                       ` arthur miller
2020-11-27  2:20                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  3:04                           ` arthur miller
2020-11-27  3:46                           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  6:27                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  6:34                               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  7:02                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  7:15                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  7:29                                     ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  7:00                               ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  7:10                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  8:26                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 13:26                                   ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  7:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27  2:15                       ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27  2:41                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  3:21                           ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27  5:47                           ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  6:06                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  6:21                               ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  6:27                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  6:34                                   ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  6:35                                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  3:32                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  5:32                           ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27  6:02                             ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  7:28                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27  7:59                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  8:11                           ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-27  9:07                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  8:25                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27  9:11                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27  8:51                           ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  9:23                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 13:44                               ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 16:02                                 ` tomas
2020-11-27 17:41                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 17:53                                     ` tomas
2020-11-27 18:07                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:45                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 21:16                                           ` tomas
2020-11-27 21:32                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 19:03                                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 19:39                                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 21:26                                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 21:40                                               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 22:15                                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-27 22:38                                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28  1:06                                                     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28  1:24                                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 22:55                                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28  1:08                                                     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28  1:45                                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28  2:54                                                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28  7:46                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 12:05                                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 15:58                                                       ` Andy Moreton
2020-11-28 16:15                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 16:29                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  0:08                                                       ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-29  0:21                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  0:25                                                           ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-29  0:44                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  1:15                                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-29  2:24                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  2:56                                                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-29  3:21                                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 23:41                                                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30  0:06                                                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30  1:06                                                                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-30  1:49                                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30  2:05                                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-30  8:58                                                                           ` tomas
2020-11-30 10:09                                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 10:41                                                                               ` tomas
2020-11-30 11:47                                                                                 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 12:43                                                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30  2:38                                                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30  3:03                                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-01 18:47                                                                           ` Andreas Eder
2020-11-30  6:45                                                                       ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 21:19                                                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 22:14                                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 22:26                                                                           ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:32                                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-30 23:44                                                                               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01  8:45                                                                               ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:45                                                                           ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 23:22                                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01  8:42                                                                               ` tomas
2020-12-01 15:50                                                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 16:35                                                                                   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 18:14                                                                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 19:33                                                                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 19:56                                                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 21:42                                                                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 22:13                                                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 22:55                                                                                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 23:16                                                                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 23:27                                                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02  4:49                                                                                         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 16:07                                                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 23:12                                                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 23:38                                                                             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  7:52                                                               ` Yuri Khan
2020-11-29 18:43                                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 12:08                                                     ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-28  7:33                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 12:02                                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29  0:05                                                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 19:06                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 19:43                                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 16:25                               ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 13:31                             ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 16:42                               ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 17:00                                 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 17:54                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:40                                     ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 18:47                                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:30                                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27  8:48                       ` tomas
2020-11-27 13:27                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 14:20                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-26 20:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-26 20:45         ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-11-27 17:51                           ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 18:00                             ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 19:00                               ` Drew Adams
2020-11-28  0:59                                 ` Jean Louis

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