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bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-al
From: |
Hendrik Tews |
Subject: |
bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:04:00 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
> Whether it is worth doing the work to make it better, I have no
> opinion. Maybe it is better to do other work instead.
There is a connection to bug#45437, which see.
I agree that it is questionable to go back in time and annotate
all functions with precise information when they had been added.
However, I believe you should
- change your development process such that, in the future, version
information for functions and variables is recorded
- not ignorantly closing issues such as 45437, when a couple of
people spent several hours to debug a problem that takes you
only 5 minutes to fix. Or how long will it take you to add one
sentence to the documentation of make-temp-file? Or how many
hours of other people do you want to waste by saving 5 minutes
on your side?
I now and then contribute to Proof General, which aims to support
about 3 major emacs version. Please advise how one can develop
backward compatible elisp code when the version in the function
documentation is non-present, plain wrong or misleading.
Best regards,
Hendrik
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Hendrik Tews, 2020/12/25
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/25
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Drew Adams, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/27
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/27
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/28
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all,
Hendrik Tews <=
bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Hendrik Tews, 2020/12/26