Re: function arguments downcased in help buffers

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:

>  That might have been your intention, but that is not what you actually
>  said, and what I was replying to.

We can discuss forever the meaning of "they are", but I stand for what
I actually said.

>  This is unrelated to what I wrote and the context I wrote it in.  DejaVu
>  Sans Mono is also not useful to X11 emacs for emacs 22,

Why not?

> AFAICT it is not available as a core X font.

That is unrelated to what you wrote, unless your definition of popular
is "available as a core X font".

>  This type of attitude is one of the reasons emacs-devel is such an
>  unpleasant environment lately.

I'd say that the attitude of using "brain-dead", "bug", "stupid" etc
to people's decissions (and, yes, sometimes mistakes) is one reason
why emacs-devel is often unpleasant. That, and the habit of pushing to
change back defaults people don't like, instead of just customizing
them in their .emacs and be done with it.

>  The discussion was about a feature that recently changed behavior

That's one way to see it. Another is to think that the feature has not
changed behavior, but a recent bug is triggering an unindented
misbehavior.

>  and
>  the statement you replied to was clearly labeled as _a personal opinion_
>  and clearly stated that it didn't require a change if that is what most
>  people want.

I fail to see why your statement is "clearly [...] _a personal
opinion_", and my comment, which explicitly said "but I find it
a bit insulting [...]", is not.

>   Stating that criticism of a feature is an insult is a
>  clear way to drive people way from any type of discussion.

Nice strawman, but I wasn't objecting to your disliking of the
feature, or your criticism, just to the election of the word "bug" to
denote an intended feature.

 Juanma