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bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG
From: |
N. Jackson |
Subject: |
bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:18:56 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
At 22:27 +0200 on Friday 2016-03-11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> How about the following variant?
>
> This will suggest the file name of the default binary to debug; if
> the suggested default is not the Emacs binary you want to debug,
> change the file name as needed.
>
> (This avoids the potentially confusing word "load", and also makes it
> clear we are talking about debugging Emacs, not some other program.)
Yes, that's better. It clearly states its meaning.
Did you see the following suggestion in my earlier message. [I wasn't
sure if you'd missed it, or if you'd decided it wasn't valid.] This was
with regard to etc/DEBUG not being about the Elisp debugger.
At 14:30 -0400 on Friday 2016-03-11, N. Jackson wrote:
>
> However, the file is named "DEBUG" and the title is "Debugging GNU
> Emacs", so it is by no means obvious that this is not the right file to
> look at.
[to find information about the Elisp debugger]
> So perhaps the title should be something like "Debugging GNU Emacs with
> GDB", and perhaps it should start out by saying something along the
> lines of
>
> This file is about debugging Emacs with GDB. For information about
> the Lisp debugger and about Edebug (the source-level debugger for
> Emacs Lisp programs), see the node "Debugging" in the Elisp manual.
Regards,
N.
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, N. Jackson, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG,
N. Jackson <=
- bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12