bug#42323: [External] : Re: bug#42323: 26.3; Doc string of `seq-map'

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I don't see how what you show fixes the bug in any
> sense at all.  If the bug can't be fixed now, or no
> one has the energy or motivation to fix it now, that
> doesn't change the fact that the bug exists.
>
> It's not fixed, IMO.  Your options, as I see it, are
> (1) close as "won't fix" or (2) leave it open, in
> hopes that someone, at some time, will find the will
> and a way to fix it, and will do so.
>
> My preference is almost always for #2.  Closing bugs
> just to close bugs doesn't improve anything (IMO).
> But it's your call, not mine.  I just don't agree
> that the bug is fixed (based on what you showed), at
> all.

We can have thousands of bug reports about issues that are basically
there because that what the help screen fundamentally looks like and how
it works.

Or we can have a small number of bug reports that concretely proposes
how to improve the things that cause problems in the first place.

I prefer the latter, and therefore I prefer this bug report closed.

In this case, IMO some kind of folding or sections is what is needed.
Or there is some other general feature that we need.  IOW, this needs a
general solution, not N bug reports about all cases where the lack of
such a general solution cause issues.