Re: Auto Fill Comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:59:02 +0100
> Sensitivity: Normal
> 
> 
> > Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 8:28 AM
> > From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
> >
> > > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:47:08 +0100
> > > Sensitivity: Normal
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > >
> > > The manuals should be rewritten because they are incomprehensible.
> > > Perhaps it was good in the eighties.  It continues forever.  Consider
> > > "face customisation" for instance, which just means font.  Nobody
> > > fuckin reads a manual with 17 nodes.  You don't know which one to use,
> > > which commands are most useful, and so on.  The problem gets compounded
> > > because every esoteric command is there.
> > >
> > > You are just insisting on something bad and inefficient.
> >
> > Fair warning: if that is your attitude towards our documentation,
> > please be aware that there will be some people here who'd refrain from
> > helping you.  We don't work for you, so if you refuse to help yourself
> > by becoming more proficient with the extensive documentation features
> > in Emacs, we cannot be expected to hold your hand forever.
> 
> It is well known that some at Gnu cannot take criticisms when others
> try to read what others write.

"I won't read your stuff because it's incomprehensible" is not a valid
criticism.  Criticism implies that you want to improve something, not
disregard it summarily.