GNU bug report logs - #36979
Calendar: mention how to copy date

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 36979 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36979: closed (Re: bug#36979: Calendar: mention how to copy date)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:39:19 -0400

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  > Yes, but is that the "proper" way to copy them?
  > One has to (know to) look in *Messages*, find the line one wants with
  > the cursor, and copy that line, no more, no less.

*Messages* is a general-purpose feature that lets you do all sorts of
things with echo area messages, including copy them.  Having
general-purpose features like this makes Emacs cleaner and simpler
than having many special-purpose features for doing various jobs of
this kind.

Instead of making and documenting some special-purpose features for
copying messages from calendar commands, we should document that you
can do it by going to the *Messages* buffer.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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