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25.1; `narrow-to-region' docstring no mention of args

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood <at> zoho.eu>
Cc: npostavs <at> gmail.com, 35163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35163: 25.1; `narrow-to-region' docstring no mention of args
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:08:25 +0300

> From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood <at> zoho.eu>
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 02:48:39 +0200
> Cc: 35163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Noam Postavsky wrote:
> 
> >> Or at least a clear description of
> >> the problem.
> >
> > To be fair, message [11] is fairly clear and
> > pretty close to what Glenn wrote (perhaps it
> > misses the emphasis on satisfying checkdoc).
> 
> I agree that message 11 is fairly clear,
> however checkdoc is mentioned there as well:
> "(checkdoc-current-buffer t) would tell you
> this ..."

Please realize that I cannot afford spending so much time on each bug
report.  I get about 200 email messages each day, perhaps 2/3 of them
about Emacs.  Just reading them all takes a large portion of the free
time I have.  A clearly described bug report usually gets fixed
immediately, within seconds of reading it.  When the issue is not so
clear, I ask follow-up questions.  Since whoever submitted the bug
report already invested some time on it -- in this case running
checkdoc -- I ask you to help me by providing the output, pointing out
the specific details which in your opinion needs fixing, and
preferably also explaining why you think they need to be fixed.
Asking me to repeat the steps that you already made makes the handling
much less efficient, and usually means the issue goes to the bottom of
my TODO.

If I don't act like that, I won't be able to cope with my daily email
inflow.

So please help me handle the issues you report efficiently by
providing the information you already have, because you've studied the
issue in advance.

TIA

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