Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug

[David Reitter]

On 30 Jun 2005, at 22:29, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

> What is the difference between your report-emacs-bug-internally
> function and the standard report-emacs-bug function?  Is it just that
> some of the code has been moved into a subroutine
> report-emacs-bug-print-debug-log?  That change would be fine to
> install, and that might greatly reduce the amount of change.

Yes, that's right. The code has been refactored into the two subroutines
report-emacs-bug-print-preamble and report-emacs-bug-print-debug-log.

> However, instead of adding this feature to emacsbug.el, can you make
> sendmail.el send mail "externally" as an option?  That would be much
> cleaner, wouldn't it?  And it would do more good.

I thought about this, but the thing is: the external bug reporting  
facility will run the mail client and cause it to start a new message  
editor. If we changed sendmail.el, we would present users with the  
internal editor first (for bug-reporting), then show them the same e- 
mail again in their external editor. That'd be confusing.

Yet, one could augment compose-mail to start the external agent. But  
I assume such changes would have knock-on effects that would be best  
considered after the release. Right?

I'm attaching the (revised) fix as a patch to emacsbug.el.

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