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Re: Auto Fill Comments


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:11:28 +0100

> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 9:25 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > 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.

Did not say I won't read.  I read it.



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