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Re: [Orgmode] How you can help
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Avdi Grimm |
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Re: [Orgmode] How you can help |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:44:39 -0400 |
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Ben Alexander <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, here's your chance. This is something that has bothered me for quite
> some time, but I've never been able to reliably reproduce the problem. And
> it's such a small issue.
Thanks! I'll try to take a look tonight or this weekend.
> So the value of a testing framework is that this: if I'm going to announce
> to the world that I can't get something to work, (like the tab key), I'm
> going to make darn sure it's a real problem. I'm going to spend the time to
> create a small sample file, that reliable creates the problem, and I'm going
> to try a few different scenarios. But if I start to get lost or confused
> about which settings I've fiddled with or what is supposed to happen, I'll
> wander away from the problem and I won't submit the bug. We all lose in
> that scenario. But if the testing framework exists, and it is lightweight
> enough for novice emacs users (advanced enough to use M-x but not advanced
> enough to read lisp) then maybe I would have used it for this example.
For the record, I normally would never expect the user to submit
tests. A description of the problem and some sample data is all I
expect. Writing the a test to reproduce the behavior is the
programmer's responsibility as far as I'm concerned.
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- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, (continued)
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Ben Alexander, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Avdi Grimm, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Avdi Grimm, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Tom Breton (Tehom), 2008/10/25
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Ben Alexander, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help,
Avdi Grimm <=
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Jeff Mickey, 2008/10/24
- [Orgmode] org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses, Ben Alexander, 2008/10/26
- Re: [Orgmode] org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses, Cameron Horsburgh, 2008/10/26
- Re: [Orgmode] org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses, Carsten Dominik, 2008/10/27
- Re: [Orgmode] org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses, Carsten Dominik, 2008/10/27
- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Rick Moynihan, 2008/10/31
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- Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/23
Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Sebastian Rose, 2008/10/23
Re: [Orgmode] How you can help, Robert Goldman, 2008/10/23