Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening

[Stefan Monnier]

> You could still argue that there ought to be some sort of wrapper for
> the Finder so that users are made aware that they lack a dependency if
> they don't have the .el files, but I digress already.

Yes, you could report this as a bug to Debian: when using
a functionality that requires the .el files (like jumping to the source
file or using finder-commentary), catch the error and replace it with
a message explaining that the user needs to install the
emacs*-el package.


        Stefan