Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones

[tomas]

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:22:50PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:

[...]

> If I were reporting a bug with Emacs going to the wrong column, I
> think the minimum effort I should put in is to search for reports with
> "column" in the subject [...]

Don't underestimate the diverse language[1] barriers here. Whatever it is
natural for you to call "column" others won't call by that name.

Emacs poses a special burden here by having its very own terminology in
many places. 

I concur with you that a bug submitter should *try* finding possible
duplicates, but we should expect him/her to fail pretty often.

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[1] "language" meaning native tongue and "local computerese"

Regards
- -- tomás
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