Re: Why are bugs discussed on this list? [was: tramp and shell ...]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 16:46:29 +0100
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> Eli, you are an exceedingly smart person (I say that without
> a whiff of irony). But you haven't walked in a greenhorn's
> shoes (definitely not wrt. Emacs) for quite a long time.
> 
> For us mere mortals it is sometimes hard to distinguish
> between PEBKAC[1] and a genuine bug. That's why we (cautiously)
> turn first to this list, perhaps once too often
> 
> Be gentle :)

I only ask these questions veteran contributors to Emacs who are quite
able to distinguish bugs from cockpit errors.

Please be gentle with me as well.