GNU bug report logs - #9877
24.0.90; `report-emacs-bug' is even more broken now

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 9074

Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.0.90

Fixed in version 24.0.94

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 9877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#9877: 24.0.90; `report-emacs-bug' is even more broken now
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:25:35 -0700

> Which is longer and more confusing.

Which is yet another sign that this UI is unclean, inherently confusing, and
overly complicated.

If you have to distinguish `emacs -Q' in various ways in the instructions for
reporting a bug, in order to make things clear, then something is wrong.  Keep
it simple, as before: `C-c C-c y'.
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