From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
"Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:29:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y3k4k9xdji.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20101119115117.GA29565@tomas
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> 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 [...]
>
> Don't underestimate the diverse language[1] barriers here. Whatever it is
> natural for you to call "column" others won't call by that name.
Yes, that is why I said that is the "minimum" effort that I personally
would try to put in. If that failed I would generally try a more
thorough search. Of the 4 (so far) reportings of this bug, every
single one had "column" in the subject though, so the minimum
suffices in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-19 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 10:59 bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column Gregor Zattler
2010-11-17 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-17 16:35 ` Gregor Zattler
2010-11-17 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-17 19:41 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-18 7:48 ` Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column) Tassilo Horn
2010-11-18 8:19 ` Searching bugs before filing new ones Glenn Morris
2010-11-18 10:14 ` Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column) Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-18 16:40 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-11-18 18:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-18 21:22 ` Searching bugs before filing new ones Glenn Morris
2010-11-18 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-19 11:51 ` tomas
2010-11-19 20:29 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-11-21 20:10 ` tomas
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