bug#12535: 24.2.50; [PATCH] `edmacro-parse-keys' is incorrect for M-<TAB>

[Drew Adams]

> >> See my previous comment.  If you don't want to make the
> >> one-line change required to fix this bug, too bad.
> >
> > If you can't be bothered to test the code you're submitting, that's also
> > too bad.
> 
> And that didn't happen in the three years since, so I'm closing this bug
> report.

Truly ridiculous.  A _great_ example (unfortunately).

Ten msgs back & forth.  Trivial change of this line:

                            "\\<\\(NUL\\|RET\\|LFD\\|ESC\\|SPC\\|DEL\\)$"

to this one (just add "\\|TAB"):

                            "\\<\\(NUL\\|RET\\|LFD\\|ESC\\|SPC\\|DEL\\|TAB\\)$"
                                                              ^^^^^^

So much for users reporting bugs.  Just the bug
report, regardless of whether any freebie
suggested solution code was also provided (which
it was), should have sufficed to get this fixed
7 years ago.

With also a description of the solution (just add
an entry for TAB) - again regardless of whether
suggested code to do that was also provided - it's
inconceivable that nothing was done about this (and
in fact there was pedantic pushback).  Lamentable.

Users _help_ by reporting bugs.  End of story.

It's not important to this reporter _how_ the bug
gets fixed.  If you find something deficient about
the fix that was volunteered, another fix is fine.
The point is that there's a bug.  (And any fix
should be trivial, here.)

Do you think there's no bug?

Or is it "wontfix" because it's too difficult to
fix?  Or because you don't think it should be
fixed?  Or because you don't like the suggested
fix, and you don't want to look for a better one?
Or is it just because you want to fight or play a
game of some kind?

I really cannot imagine why that 6-char fix would
not have been applied sometime in the 7 years that
have elapsed since the report - let alone why the
bug would now be closed as "wontfix".

Of course, if there's a good argument as to why
there's no bug, that's different.  None has been
presented.

The bug report was just handled like a complaint
form filled out improperly:

fill-out-the-form-again-and-go-to-the-end-of-the-line-and-start-over.