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tramp (2.2.13.25.1); bug report form is so frustrating

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Message #23 received at 26036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 26036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tramp-devel <at> gnu.org,
 "Richard M. Stallman" <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#26036: tramp (2.2.13.25.1); bug report form is so frustrating
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:06:14 +0800

Ah, the equivalent of a URL that you cannot click on. And even worse:
cannot even get next to so one can use ffap on it, no even...copy! And
right there in the flagship of freedom editor: emacs. I'll CC rms.

>>>>> "MA" == Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

>> OK but you give a lisp form in there, which the user would like to
>> execute with C-x C-e. But he cannot even get the cursor anywhere near
>> it. So he has to copy it letter by letter, by hand. Doesn't that make
>> him feel bad?

MA> If you call "M-x report-emacs-bug", you are pointed to the file
MA> .../etc/DEBUG for further reading. You cannot select it either.

MA> This is the nature of explanation parts in bug reports.

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