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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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