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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: 22587@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760vd7tzs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y48ahuza.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:18:49 +0300")

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:41 +0300) wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that this bug has no clear purpose, or too broad a
>> purpose, or something.
>>
>> Could you retitle it, or close it, or fix it, whichever is appropriate?
>> :-)
>
> Was it for me?

‘To whom it may concern’.  :-)

> I think the main purpose of this report was to tell us that "edit"
> name is confusing.  So I would retitle it to "Rename 'guix edit' as it
> is confusing".  But I don't know how; can it be done by sending some
> control message?

Yes, using the ‘retitle’ command, described somewhere at
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html>.

However, I think (1) the title should describe the bug, not the
solution, and (2) ‘guix edit’ does what it says IMO, even if it can
occasionally stumble upon read-only files.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-07 18:04 bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change myglc2
2016-02-07 18:58 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-07 19:22   ` myglc2
2016-02-07 19:34     ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-07 20:26       ` myglc2
2016-02-08  8:34 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-08 15:30   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-08 18:29   ` myglc2
2016-04-18  8:37     ` Alex Kost
2016-04-18 17:41       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19  8:18         ` Alex Kost
2016-04-19 10:50           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-04-20  7:20             ` Alex Kost
2016-04-20 15:31               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-21 10:40                 ` Alex Kost
2016-06-02 19:40                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-03 19:04                     ` Alex Kost
2016-06-04 11:21                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-18 21:10       ` myglc2

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