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Re: Debugging Emacs
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: Debugging Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 12:18:43 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Probably, etc/DEBUG needs to be replaced with a section in the elisp
>> manual.
>
> Somebody already mentioned that. I don't think I agree: when you
> debug, you need the instructions be available on the simplest medium
> possible, so a plain text file is better than Info. What's more
> important, a single file with a distinct name is easier found than a
> section in a large manual.
It would be very rare to have no working Emacs available to read an info
manual.
Perhaps a short summary in etc/DEBUG, with more complete description in
the manual?
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-- Stephe