annotate BUGS @ 28901:0e7bbb764f47

(comment-use-syntax): Change `maybe' to `undecided'. (comment-quote-nested): New. Replaces comment-nested. (comment-add): Turn into a mere defvar or a integer. (comment-style): Change default to `plain'. (comment-styles): Rename `plain' to `indent' and create a new plainer `plain'. (comment-string-reverse): Use nreverse. (comment-normalize-vars): Change `maybe' to `undecided', add comments. Don't infer the setting of comment-nested anymore (the default for comment-quote-nested is safe). Use comment-quote-nested. (comment-end-quote-re): Use comment-quote-nested. (comment-search-forward): Obey LIMIT. (comment-indent): Don't skip forward further past comment-search-forward. (comment-padleft): Use comment-quote-nested. (comment-make-extra-lines): Use `cons' rather than `values'. (comment-region-internal): New arg INDENT. Use line-end-position. Avoid multiple-value-setq. (comment-region): Follow the new comment-add semantics. Don't do box comments any more. (comment-box): New function. (comment-dwim): Only do the region stuff is transient-mark-active.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Sat, 13 May 2000 19:41:08 +0000
parents 354e0c45cedf
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1 If you think you may have found a bug in GNU Emacs, please
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2 read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual for advice on
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3 (1) how to tell when to report a bug, and
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4 (2) how to write a useful bug report and what information
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5 it needs to have.
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7 There are three ways to read the Bugs section.
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9 (1) In a printed copy of the Emacs manual.
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10 You can order one from the Free Software Foundation;
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11 see the file etc/ORDERS. But if you don't have a copy on
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12 hand and you think you have found a bug, you shouldn't wait
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13 to get a printed manual; you should read the section right away
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14 as described below.
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16 (2) With Info. Start Emacs, do C-h i to enter Info,
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17 then m Emacs RET to get to the Emacs manual, then m Bugs RET
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18 to get to the section on bugs. Or use standalone Info in
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19 a like manner. (Standalone Info is part of the Texinfo distribution,
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20 not part of the Emacs distribution.)
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22 (3) By hand. Do
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23 cat info/emacs* | more "+/^File: emacs, Node: Bugs,"
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