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bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el)
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el) |
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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:37:03 +0200 |
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:20:24 +0000
> Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Why is it useful to remove this information? The documentation of the
> spell-checkers themselves leaves a lot to be desired, so asking the
> users to go consult it might not be appreciated. I'd rather add here
> the missing info about the other spellers.
>
> Emacs is enough for us to document without trying to document third-party
> software. Since all the software
> involved is free, better to fix it directly, and benefit all its users,
> rather than take on the burden of documenting
> it in order only to benefit Emacs users.
I agree with the general point, but in this case we are talking about
mentioning a small number of file names in the doc string. Doesn't
seem like a burden to me, and whoever put that information there
probably didn't see it as such, either.
> > * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-version): Since ispell.el is now
> > firmly part of Emacs, and the version hasn’t changed since 2003, and
> > isn’t used anywhere, remove it. 3rd-party code can better use the
> > Emacs version, or feature or function checks.
>
> I agree, but instead of removing the information, how about replacing
> it with the Emacs version? Something like "ispell.el from Emacs %s".
>
> The context is an interactive call to ispell-check-version, which reports
> what version of the spell-checker is
> being used. If the user wishes to know what version of Emacs they are
> running, they can check
> emacs-version.
I was thinking about someone using the result to report the version
they have, e.g. as part of a bug report.
- bug#25107: Patches to clean up ispell.el, Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/04
- Message not available
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/04
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/05
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/06
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/12
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/13
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/13