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Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening |
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Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:46 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> > You could still argue that there ought to be some sort of
>> > wrapper for the Finder so that users are made aware that
>> > they lack a dependency if
>> > they don't have the .el files, but I digress already.
>>
>> Yes, you could report this as a bug to Debian: when using
>> a functionality that requires the .el files (like jumping to
>> the source
>> file or using finder-commentary), catch the error and replace it with
>> a message explaining that the user needs to install the
>> emacs*-el package.
> Maybe the byte-compiler should preserve the Commentary, since some runtime
> code depends on it? ;-)
> Half-kidding. There's also a large variation in the amount and quality of
> Commentary doc. This feature is of only limited value.
If by "this feature" you mean finder-commentary, I somewhat agree.
But the feature to jump to the source code OTOH is very important to
encourage people to contribute.
Stefan
- Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, martin rudalics, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, martin rudalics, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/26
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/26
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/27
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/27
- RE: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Drew Adams, 2008/02/27
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening,
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- RE: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Drew Adams, 2008/02/27