On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Ben Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here's your chance. This is something that has bothered me for quite > some time, but I've never been able to reliably reproduce the problem. And > it's such a small issue.
Thanks! I'll try to take a look tonight or this weekend. > So the value of a testing framework is that this: if I'm going to announce > to the world that I can't get something to work, (like the tab key), I'm > going to make darn sure it's a real problem. I'm going to spend the time to > create a small sample file, that reliable creates the problem, and I'm going > to try a few different scenarios. But if I start to get lost or confused > about which settings I've fiddled with or what is supposed to happen, I'll > wander away from the problem and I won't submit the bug. We all lose in > that scenario. But if the testing framework exists, and it is lightweight > enough for novice emacs users (advanced enough to use M-x but not advanced > enough to read lisp) then maybe I would have used it for this example. For the record, I normally would never expect the user to submit tests. A description of the problem and some sample data is all I expect. Writing the a test to reproduce the behavior is the programmer's responsibility as far as I'm concerned. -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode