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Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file

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Message #90 received at 1621 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> Math.Berkeley.EDU>
To: era eriksson <era <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 1621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1621: Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:03:14 -0700

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:10:57AM +0200, era eriksson wrote:
> I do think it makes sense to keep it in the micro-docs.  If nothing
> else, it's easy to refer newcomers to it, and even if you did manage to
> somehow set it up on your own, you might want to review the "official"
> way to do it, perhaps while idly browsing the micro-docs looking for
> neat stuff you didn't originally understand how to set up.
> 
> Another thing I've been meaning to propose would be for cperl-mode to
> offer to install itself into your .emacs when you invoke it for the
> first time, sort of like how (put 'dangerous-command 'disabled nil)
> occasionally gets added to your .emacs after asking for permission. 
> (IIRC narrow-to-region is one of these "dangerous" commands, and some of
> the horizontal scrolling commands which I never use except by mistake.)

Myself, I would hate it if it were like this: supposed I'm annoyed by
this "feature" - should it also ask whether to put a command into
.emacs which would disable this question?  ;-)

> Do you think it would be appropriate to remove the +wontfix tag from
> this bug?

I do not know what "the +wontfix" means.  The situation is as in "I
considered your suggestions, I appreciated your suggestions, and I
even mentioned possibly reconsidering your suggestions in my TODO
files".  ;-)

Yours,
Ilya

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