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Re: Auto Fill Comments
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Auto Fill Comments |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:08:50 +0100 |
Always listening to positive applause is not a good strategy.
Had superiors like that. Terrible.
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 8:46 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:15:58 +0100
> >
> > And if you ask for help everybody is suddenly quiet. I would be pissed
> > off. I don't know where Eli's motivation comes from.
>
> My motivation comes from the urge to keep improving the Emacs
> documentation. I cannot possibly do that with "criticism" that just
> says our documentation sucks and should be rewritten, because that's
> not useful: I don't know how to convert that to any useful list of
> things to fix.
>
> And, of course, saying that the manuals should be rewritten is a clear
> sign that the person probably doesn't know how to use the Info mode
> efficiently, and probably didn't read too much of said documentation.
> Which further diminishes the useful payload of such claims.
>
>
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, (continued)
- RE: Auto Fill Comments, Drew Adams, 2020/11/30
- Re: RE: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/30
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/30
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/30
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Yuri Khan, 2020/11/29
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/29
- Re: Auto Fill Comments,
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/28
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/28
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Arthur Miller, 2020/11/28
- RE: Auto Fill Comments, Drew Adams, 2020/11/27
- Re: RE: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/27
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Arthur Miller, 2020/11/27
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Jean Louis, 2020/11/27
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Arthur Miller, 2020/11/27
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Jean Louis, 2020/11/27
- Re: Auto Fill Comments, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/27