GNU bug report logs - #8050
Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, ding <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:04:32 -0800

Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com> writes:

> I *very much* care what goes into that file and want to see the exact
> text.  So find my proposal to accomodate normal and obsessive users
> alike below :)

I think this is like a debugging thing.  Emacs shouldn't be a platform
to debug the applications running in it.  It should just run the
applications.  :-)

As a user, I don't care, and I shouldn't care about what format the
application stores the information in.  So even putting that option in
the prompt gives a bad User eXperience, in my opinion.  It's just
confusing.

Displaying irrelevant info is almost as bad as not displaying info the
user needs.  (Note "user", not "implementer".  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi <at> gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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